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[yolojo]

So I recently created a Win7 partition for my Macbook Pro 15" and installed Dragon Age Origins.

Everything went fine until I pressed play and it said "Failed to detect compatible video card". Now I'm quite confused, I'm sure my Macbook Pro 15" is strong enough to play Dragon Age...right? Any help would be nice I'm desperate to play the game.

[RaenImrahl]

yolojo wrote...

So I recently created a Win7 partition for my Macbook Pro 15" and installed Dragon Age Origins.

Everything went fine until I pressed play and it said "Failed to detect compatible video card". Now I'm quite confused, I'm sure my Macbook Pro 15" is strong enough to play Dragon Age...right? Any help would be nice I'm desperate to play the game.

No idea.  Can you post the specs for it?  Processor, RAM, and graphics processing?

[Gorath Alpha]

yolojo wrote...

Now I'm quite confused, I'm sure my Macbook Pro 15" is strong enough to play Dragon Age...right?

Wrong, actually.  There's a cheaper one without any proper video graphics card, only what Intel offers as a very Low End Chipset video chip, which just isn't for gaming. 

[yolojo]

Hm, okay first of all I must confess that I am not exactly familiar with PC gaming, so I have no clue about cards and the like.

But my Macbook Pro has a NVIDIA Geforce 9400M. That to my knowledge should be good enough for Dragon Age no?
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8GHZ
Memory 4GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHZ (dont know what this is)

However I realized that when it's in Win7 mode it says my card is just a "standard vga graphics adapter".

I'm currently looking for ways to allow my Win7 to detect my card, assuming that's the problem.

[RaenImrahl]

yolojo wrote...

Hm, okay first of all I must confess that I am not exactly familiar with PC gaming, so I have no clue about cards and the like.

But my Macbook Pro has a NVIDIA Geforce 9400M. That to my knowledge should be good enough for Dragon Age no?
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8GHZ
Memory 4GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHZ (dont know what this is)

However I realized that when it's in Win7 mode it says my card is just a "standard vga graphics adapter".

I'm currently looking for ways to allow my Win7 to detect my card, assuming that's the problem.

Yup.  You probably need to install the Nvidia graphics driver for it.  Go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us  I believe version 266.58 is the most stable one out there right now for your GPU chip.

I'd also suggest you make sure you've run Windows Update and make sure everything marked as "Important" is installed, too.

Let us know how it works!

[yolojo]

RaenImrahl wrote...

yolojo wrote...

Hm, okay first of all I must confess that I am not exactly familiar with PC gaming, so I have no clue about cards and the like.

But my Macbook Pro has a NVIDIA Geforce 9400M. That to my knowledge should be good enough for Dragon Age no?
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8GHZ
Memory 4GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHZ (dont know what this is)

However I realized that when it's in Win7 mode it says my card is just a "standard vga graphics adapter".

I'm currently looking for ways to allow my Win7 to detect my card, assuming that's the problem.

Yup.  You probably need to install the Nvidia graphics driver for it.  Go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us  I believe version 266.58 is the most stable one out there right now for your GPU chip.

I'd also suggest you make sure you've run Windows Update and make sure everything marked as "Important" is installed, too.

Let us know how it works!

Thanks for the help. To everyone who posted. I'm still downloading it and I'm not sure if it'll work but I had another question.

I could only find version 265 (although 266.58 is mentioned in its description I couldn't select it) through selecting my own card and stuff like that on that site. But then I found an even newer version 267 on another website, I'm going to ahead and assume that that version won't even run properly on my card.

What I really want to ask is so this file is going to enable Win7 to read my card? Or is it just going to enable some of its features? Is it going to reach its full potential and run the game properly or is it just going to make it BARELY run Dragon age? I'm asking because I'm super frustrated getting this to work and I even went ahead and installed all these mods to make Leliana sexy then I got angry and uninstalled it....and now I'm wasting my life and reinstalling it again...I just want to know what kind of setbacks I'm about to face. Thanks

EDIT: I just realized I don't even have sound...

Modifié par yolojo, 06 mars 2011 - 05:43 .

[Gorath Alpha]

The 9400m still isn't very good, but much better than most Intel options.

http://www.notebookc...-G.11949.0.html

That's still not a real video card. It will only run Low Quality images, but it should manage to do so without excessive slowdown in any but the busiest scenes.

[yolojo]

Alright I got it to work. Thanks guys. The 266.5 download worked, and I had to install another audio driver to get that to work as well.

Frustrating as hell. This game better be worth it...

[RaenImrahl]

yolojo wrote...

What I really want to ask is so this file is going to enable Win7 to read my card? Or is it just going to enable some of its features? Is it going to reach its full potential and run the game properly or is it just going to make it BARELY run Dragon age? I'm asking because I'm super frustrated getting this to work and I even went ahead and installed all these mods to make Leliana sexy then I got angry and uninstalled it....and now I'm wasting my life and reinstalling it again...I just want to know what kind of setbacks I'm about to face. Thanks

EDIT: I just realized I don't even have sound...

I encourage you to manage your expectations... you're going to be dealing with a number of disadvantages:

-- First, DAO best runs on a desktop PC.  You're running it on a laptop.  Even a MacBook Pro trades some performance for portablility.

-- Second, you're using an application-based multi-boot tool to run Windows in parallel with Mac OS.  Bootcamps come a long way, but it will still use a smidge of your system resources (not as much as, say, VMWare Fusion, however).

-- Third, you're intending to mod the game.  Indeed, I assume that's why you're opting to run it on Windows and not on Mac OS.  Mods can be fun.  They can also breed instability.

Gorath is correct... you're not going to be able to play at every high graphics levels with a lot of stability.  But you should be able to run the game, unless you mod it to the point that it crashes.  So again, manage your expectations.

Good luck!

[Nightfall26]

I hate to post on a kind of old form but can someone help me I got an Imac and recently started using bootcamp and installed Windows 7 and try to install a game and the same thing to me it said "Failed to detect compatible video card," did the same thing Yolojo did checked what is said under the graphics card and it said standard VGV graphics adapter.

The main problem I am having is My Graphics card is not a NVIDIA graphics card its a ATI Radeon HD 5750 and when I went to the sight suggested it does not have the graphics card that I have so I have no clue where to go to get my graphics driver can someone please help me I could really use it.

IMac
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5750
Processor: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.8GHz
Memory: 4GB

[Gorath Alpha]

AMD Radeon Driver download

http://support.amd.c...ages/index.aspx

[Nightfall26]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

AMD Radeon Driver download

http://support.amd.c...ages/index.aspx

Sorry I don't mean to be a burrden on you more but I went to the site downloaded it, it sayed that everything was installed and good to go yet when I went to go test it out on the dragon age 2 demo it still says "Failed to detect a supported video card" umm am I doing something wrong? After I went to the link you gave me and put in all the info and it brought me to this page http://sites.amd.com...on_win7-64.aspx , I guess a probelm could be I might be installing the wrong thing, but thats all I can think of as what could be the problem. The one I downloaded was the first one, Catalyst Software Suite.

Thanks for the help you have given me so far, and it you have any idea of what I am doing wrong now please let me know and I will be extreamly thankful.

[Gorath Alpha]

Same as all of the other message threads about the same thing, really. If the card is right, then the Direct3D is possibly what is wrong, and Dx9 is required, as well as whatever Dx10 / Dx11 comes in the Windows you are loading using Bootcamp. You absolutely must not mix up screen resolutions; if you have the 16:10 wide format, you must choose one of the resolutions that match.

The game can also be mis-installed sometimes, and needs to be uninstalled, then reinstalled. All of this has already been explained many times over in the year and a half since the game was new.