City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Problem with playing on Windows 8

Arcanaville

By Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2012-08-01 23:41 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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The game seemed to download, install, and update just fine. But when they tried to play they got this message.



My computer know-how is limited so I couldn't help much.

Any ideas?

 

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Windows 8 already !!?

What machine are you trying to run it on? Is the os built in or did you update it yourself?

 

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It's my brother's computer, so I'm not sure. I think it's a beta version or something. Sorry I don't have any more details, he only mentioned it earlier tonight and I figured I'd just throw the question out here in case anyone might have more knowledge of it.

 

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This issue does crop up occasionally. As the info says CoH runs on OpenGL not DirectX so your brother will need to do some research on a plugin or driver (or a setting) that will run OpenGL on his video card under windows.

 

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Based on my limited experience with Win8, the drivers that come with the preview Win8 don't tend to have OpenGL support within them. To get OpenGL to work with any of the consumer preview editions of Win8 for x86 requires getting manufacturer drivers for the video card from the vendor that include opengl if they have them, figuring out how to load Win7 video drivers with opengl support into Win8, or you're SOL.

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I've got a Win8 partition (and an HD 5770) - AMD does have newer Win8 drivers. I don't recall right offhand if I actually saw that message to begin with or not - but just go to AMD's site and snag the release preview's drivers.

Install, restart, swear at how horrible Win8 is for half an hour, run COH, enjoy, exit, swear at Win8 more. (At least that's my usual flow...)

 

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Thanks for the info guys. I'll pass it along and see what we can do.