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game still crashes at startup - burningfortress - 12-04-2011

The game crashes when I try to launch it. I can't even see what the error message is. I noticed that the game does not recognize my video card (nvidia 8800gt) so I used driver sweeper after uninstalling my drivers and then downloaded/installed the newest driver but my card still isn't recognized. I bought the game via steam and my pc components are

Windows XP Home Service Pack 3
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
NVIDIA 8800GT
2 GB Ram


RE: game still crashes at startup - jens - 12-04-2011

Did you download the drivers from nvidia.com?



RE: game still crashes at startup - plutomaniac - 12-04-2011

Make sure yo have this installed:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-290.36-beta-driver.html



RE: game still crashes at startup - burningfortress - 12-04-2011

(12-04-2011, 01:28 PM)plutomaniac Wrote: Make sure yo have this installed:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-290.36-beta-driver.html
I installed this driver but the game still crashes when I attempt to launch it.


RE: game still crashes at startup - plutomaniac - 12-04-2011

Maybe your graphics card is corrupted then. Can you run other games?



RE: game still crashes at startup - burningfortress - 12-04-2011


This is the first game I've ever had a problem running. I bought the game about a year ago but uninstalled it because it would instantly crash at launch. In the past month I've played Portal 2, The Witcher, Stalker, Fallout: New Vegas with no problems. I just installed Fallout: New Vegas a few days ago and I launched it today for the first time and it recognized my video card.


RE: game still crashes at startup - plutomaniac - 12-04-2011

At the launcher does it detect the 8800GT? Try to run the game again and reattach us the HPL.log file. We should do a clean driver installation again I think.



RE: game still crashes at startup - burningfortress - 12-05-2011

I did another clean driver installation and the game still doesn't detect my 8800GT.


RE: game still crashes at startup - plutomaniac - 12-05-2011

Download the file attached below and run the exe in there. What OpenGL version does it detect?



RE: game still crashes at startup - burningfortress - 12-05-2011

DoctorGL also crashed when I tried to run it