PlaneShift
Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Thoughtcrime on October 16, 2006, 11:11:51 pm
-
For as long as I can remember, every time I try starting up PS on the computer I'm at right now the server doesn't work. I have the "No Hardware Acceleration" message at the top, but the only thing I can possibly find wrong is that I have 502 RAM instead of 512.
Perhaps it's my graphics card, perhaps not...I was thinking my router but it seems a bit more complicated than that. Would anyone be kind enough to walk me through fixing this?
-
I would suggest going to #planeshift-build on freenode.net using an irc client. You should be able to get realtime help to troubleshoot the problem.
Recommended Window's Irc Clients Include: kvirc at http://www.kvirc.net and icechat at http://www.icechat.net
Recommended Linux Irc Clients Include: kvirc at http://www.kvirc.net and bitchx at http://www.bitchx.org
-
Oi, you habe no clue how much I loathe IRC. T_T But if I can't get any help here I'll get one of those...
-
I don't see how your router would have anything to do with hardware acceleration o.O Try updating graphics drivers.
-
Where could I find an update?
-
Where could I find an update?
from your graphic card manufacturers web site.
-
Err, well, I just did. Nothing yet.
-
What card do you have? :}
-
X-/ I can't decipher my diagnostics, but it's some kind of Intel card. 82845G?
-
Chances are that it's an integrated chipset in that case, and not an actual video card. Can you type dxdiag into the run command, and find the "Approx. Total Memory" on the Display tab? If it's less than 64MB, that computer isn't much good for running PlaneShift.
-
Approx. Total Memory: n/a
......>>
-
you may be missing some mainboard drivers maybe also the graphics drivers but if all thouse are intel its pretty simple to find the drivers
-
Drivers (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/), with instructions (http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-009480.htm?iid=graphics+845main&) on how to check your current driver version.
Can you look through your BIOS settings and check whether 32MB or 64MB is allocated for graphics on your chipset? It's an iffy thing, and you'll be much better off with an actual graphics card rather than something integrated.
-
Approx. Total Memory: n/a
......>>
I have a total memory of 128 but I have still the same problem...when I enter the game the "no hardware acceleration" message apears...I have the newest driver for my graphic card and motherboard...
-
What card do you have, and what driver version?
-
The drivers shipped with e.g. Windows XP often do not support OpenGL. You will need to install current drivers from your manufacturer.
And besides NVidia and ATI cards, only few are powerful enough. Especially onboard intel chips in notebooks rarely are.
-
Guh, is there any way to get a better card rather than the one I have installed, then?
-
Buy one :) newegg.com is a good place to search, with great prices. Get a card with 128MB of memory (if not 256) and you'll be set. The more the better of course, but you can find 128MB cards for around $50.
-
to make it clear, is it a laptop or a desktop pc?
-
lmao, im just imagining him returning and saying 'I just got my new PCI Express graphics card....... where do I put it in my laptop' :oops: ;D
-
rofl yeah i know what you mean ;)
if it's a desktop it could have agp to so hrm a pci-x in agp plugg... good luck