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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: djmac on June 15, 2005, 03:01:06 am

Title: Problem
Post by: djmac on June 15, 2005, 03:01:06 am

Everytime i start the game i get this mesage in a yellow bar on top of the orange screen

crystalspace.canvas.openglwin:
  No hardware acceleration!

and the game move at such an incredibly slow rate as to be unplayable

what can i do to change this?

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Post by: Seytra on June 15, 2005, 03:07:37 am

The message means that either your graphics card does not provide for hardware acceleration, or that there is no (proper) driver installed to enable use of it.

Thus, you must install / update your graphics and DirectX drivers to the latest versions, or, if your hardware doesn\'t supposrt 3d acceleration, buy a decent graphics card that does.

Without hardware graphics acceleration, the CPU of your system must do all graphics work, which will severely reduce your computers speed when in PS.

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Post by: djmac on June 15, 2005, 03:41:31 am

Ok but i updated my DirectX, and i have a NVIDA GeForce card that worked perfectly well for Lineage 2 which has similar, if not better, graphics

however its still doesnt work

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Post by: Ralas on June 15, 2005, 08:06:54 am

Did you install the nvidia drivers?  If not, that would certainly help.

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Post by: Seytra on June 15, 2005, 06:19:19 pm

PS uses OpenGL, lineage may default to 3dFX or something else. Therefore, if your drivers are not set up properly to support / enable OpenGL, LII may work while PS will fail.

Also, OpenGL does not equal OpenGL: there have been different versions, and PS requires a recent (or even the most recent) version or OpenGL, whereas LII might not. Thus, you need to make sure your drivers are up to date.