Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 Issues, Please Help

The SystemsRequirementsLab Can you Run It? site says I should be able to run this game with no problem.

My HP laptop:

Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz
2 GB System RAM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 26002)
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
* Video RAM: 256 MB
* Video Card 3D Acceleration: Yes
* Video HW Rasterization: Yes
* Video HW Transform & Lighting: Yes
* Vertex Shader Ver.: 3.0
* Pixel Shader Ver.: 3.0
* Video Card Driver: 7.15.11.7948
DirectX 10.0

However CoH is giving me these messages:

You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_multitexture
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_texture_compression

My driver is the latest.

I've tried the CoHwikia suggestions of running in emulated Windows XP Service Pack 2. I still get the message.

I've tried the CoHwikia suggestion of putting this:

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -renderthread 1

In the target for the shortcut.

Still no love.

Help Please!

First: Ignore the wikia site. That's an old version of ParagonWiki that's unmaintained, except by spammers.

Secondly, please post your HiJack This and CoH Helper information. It's most likely that your nvidia drivers are out of date.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

"-renderthread 1" no longer does anything. It's enabled by default. I don't know why it would be listed in the wiki unless you are using the old site that is outdated.

Also:
* Video Card Driver: 7.15.11.7948

I don't think that's the latest version.

CoH Helper Info:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at September 15, 2009 12:54 (-08:00)
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv9000 (RP282UA#ABA)
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBLv
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Memory: 2046MB
.Net Memory Report: 1318MB out of 2045MB available
Page File: 3521MB (803MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD1200BEVS-60LAT0 ATA Device) 82476MB out of 114470MB (72%) free
D Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 10
DirectX Diag version: 6.00.6001.18000 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce Go 7600
Video Memory: 1016 MB
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7948
Driver Date: 1/30/2009 9:12:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Conexant High Definition Audio)
Driver File: CHDRT32.sys
Driver Version: 4.33.0001.0000
Driver Date: 3/3/2008 5:10:44 AM

Sound Device Description: SPDIF Interface (Conexant High Definition Audio)
Driver File: CHDRT32.sys
Driver Version: 4.33.0001.0000
Driver Date: 3/3/2008 5:10:44 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Quanta
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 30BD
Motherboard Version: 66.40
BIOS Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
BIOS Name: Ver 1.00PARTTBLv
BIOS Version: HPQOEM - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20071113000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 100, 100
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Unknown (3)

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: No
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 712560 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20090902.4T2C
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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I have an Everex XT5000T laptop with the nVidia GeForce Go7600 and am able to play.
Pretty close to your config -- Vista32, Dual core (AMD X2 here), 4GB RAM.

I don't have it here with me at work, but from the messages it looks like maybe you have managed to turn off your OpenGL?

I cannot tell from the card driver you listed, but you might try downloading the latest Go7600 drivers from the nVidia site.

I'll check my settings when I get home in a couple hours.

Thanks all. I appreciate the help and await more.

This was my Ma's computer and she gave it to me so I'm not sure what she may have done to it prior to me getting it. It seems to be in great condition and runs nicely etc. Like my Ma I'm mostly a tech idiot, however I do my best not to mess with stuff I know nothing about. LOL

Due to Suspicious_Pkg's post I decided to check the settings in the Nvidia control panel. It looks like my Ma or Pops put in a bunch of custom settings in the Nvidia control panel. I reset the settings to default and now CoH is running fine.

Good to hear that you found the problem. I have the same laptop and have never had an issue with it.