why loadtexture not working for me?

i am new with 3d

Graphics 640,480
p2=LoadImage("texturetest.jpg")
DrawImage p2,0,0

works fine

but in the same code

(after graphics 3d and all that jazz)

p2=LoadTexture("texturetest.jpg")
EntityTexture ter,p2

it says 'texture does not exist' (the terrain does exist)

is there something special about loadtexture i don't understand? i don't know how to get information about what is wrong. i tried a bmp instead of jpg. that didn't work. the jpg is stored 'baseline' with no preview, compression level 6. nothing special that i can see.

Texture size might be not supported.

While images are not hardware bound, the texture has to fullfill your hardware support.

- 2^x x 2^x meassures like 128x128 etc
- not larger than 512x512

erk, how do i know what to do, what to check?

i just tried a 3d beginners tutorial from Ray Diaz, and i'm getting something similar:

Texture does not exist

for:
cube_tile = LoadTexture("Floor.jpg")
floor1 = CreateCube()
ScaleEntity floor1,8,0.06,13
ScaleTexture cube_tile,.5,.5

but works fine for

ter_tex = LoadTexture("mossyground.bmp")
EntityTexture terrain,ter_tex

I'm using a matrox parhelia (3 monitor) setup.

i am completely lost as to what to do here.

thanks for any help!

is the texture in the same folder as the source file?

yes, and other textures seem to work, just not all of them. this might be why sometimes software doesn't work for me, just crashes for no known reason.
?

maybe my graphics card? matrox parhelia 3 monitors do you think that has something to do with it, and how can i figure it out? and is there a workaround?

i would happily buy 3 graphics cards to run my 3 monitors if that's going to solve it - the parhelia is kind of slow nowadays. (I cannot give up the 3 monitor setup though!)

i tried some demos in the blitz3d samples folder, and most work, but for example i get 'texture does not exist' for birdie/Quick Deform/qd.bb as it tries to load bl3d_big.jpg, the blitz3d logo.

so clearly there's something wrong with my setup - but when i'm writing a game how am i going to make sure that most people can play it and won't have problems? what textures should i avoid? clearly birdie didn't realize some computers would have trouble with this texture - how is the author to know?


also got a complaint on this:

bush = LoadSprite("bush2.tga",4)
PositionEntity bush, 90,6,135

i am not sure what tga files are yet, but it cannot be good that i'm getting these errors.

i just tried it on my laptop, a toshiba satellite, and it works fine.

is it possible my graphics card is simply crap and i need to get new ones? i am running matrox parhelia 128, should i just get the martox parhelia 256, could that possibly solve it?
(ps:i updated my drivers - it made it worse! i've since rolledback)