Laptop giving me grief...


ByrosMessenger

 

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Okay, so with the newer format of the forums, I'm not even sure if this is the correct place to post this...if its not, I'm guessing it will be moved by a Mod.
A little background: "My" laptop is actually a friends that he used during college (2 years back) so it is old(er) and was running CoH fairly well, with low graphics.
I recently reformatted ( I think that is the correct word ) the laptop with the help of another friend. The laptop was running slow, and malewarebytes stopped running...so ..yup ...virus or something that was suffocating the computer.
So, we reinstalled windows xp, but apparently not all of the video drivers...or something is missing.
Getting this message when trying to open CoH :
Program Error-
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_Multitexture (then I click OK)
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_texture_compression (then I click OK)
Then some message about Your video card is unsupported blah blah blah...
I tried installing a ATI Video driver that I found on the HP website, it appears to install, but I can't find anything with ATI, and in the device manager there is still no video card.
If you want the HiJackThis info or other information just let me know.
Thanks in advance guys!
Oh...computer is : HP Compaq nc6230


 

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You'll need to jump through some hoops for this laptop.

Typical ATi drivers provided by hardware vendors lack OpenGL support. While AMD is now "officially" supporting Laptops with the current Catalyst release (10.3), they are only supporting RadeonHD 2000 series onwards.

Previous graphics cards were retired a full calendar year ago with the Cataylst 9.3 release.

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So, the first thing you'll need to do is get a graphics driver to support your Radeon x300. That would be the 9.3 driver: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...?&lang=English

Second, you'll need the Mobility modder to actually install it: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/modtool.php

Follow the instructions on the mobility modder page to install the driver.


 

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Thanks will get to work on it asap!


 

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Sure sounds like Saist knows what they're talking about, but lemme mention that when I was getting this error after upgrading to a new ATI video card, I had to upgrade my **CHIPSET** drivers to fix the issue.

Not graphics drivers, mind you, chipset drivers.

I had never even heard of chipset drivers before encountering this problem, but if Saist's stuff doesn't fix your problem, use the Search feature here to find other posts with the terms "GL_ARB Multitexture blah blah" or whatever it is, starting in the Tech Issues and Bugs forum.

People have been experiencing this periodically for years now.

And yes, fixes vary by machine, so you may have some digging/trial-and-error work ahead.