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[SilentShaddo]

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Processor:  AMD Sempron™ Processor 3200+
Display Adapter:  Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series (Omega 3.8.442)
Driver Version:  CATALYST Omega 7.12
CATALYST Omega 7.12
DirectX 9.0c (Nov2007)
VRam: 256 MB

Computer Monitor meets low emission standards



so what do i need to buy new that will stop it from saying video card not supported?

[Vantharas]

What the hell I just upgraded to 1.02 and now its telling me the same thing.

[SilentShaddo]

man something is messing up bad

[Vantharas]

If I could get G4TV to run this as there Epic Fail that would be hiliarious. But seriously.. wth lol.



AMD 965 BE @ 4.0ghz

DDR2 800

ATI Radeon 5970

Corsair TX850

Asus M3A79-T

[Gorath Alpha]

SilentShaddo wrote...

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Processor:  AMD Sempron™ Processor 3200+
Display Adapter:  Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series (Omega 3.8.442)
Driver Version:  CATALYST Omega 7.12
CATALYST Omega 7.12
DirectX 9.0c (Nov2007)
VRam: 256 MB

so what do i need to buy new that will stop it from saying video card not supported?

You need at least a Mainline Gaming card ("n600"), newer than a 2003 design.  The X300 was just a rebranded Radeon 9600, with PCIe instead of AGP.  The X1050 is basically the same as an X300 SE, still a six year old tinker toy. 

You also need a modern full-powered CPU, not a Celeron / Sempron.  The minimum to even consider is an AMD 3200 (the Semprons are low-power, small-cache versions, not intended for high iontensity 3D gaming). 

A Sempron is quite slow and weak compared to a full power CPU.  Only a Celeron is worse. 

The official minimum Radeon is the X850, a year newer than the Radeon 9n00 Dx9.0"a" cards, with Dx9.0"b" shader capability.  Those are no longer available new, nor is the X1650 available on the shelves (which, if it had been, would have been a more appropriate minimum to have named, anyway) so the effective minimum Radeon becomes the three year old HD 2600 Pro, which is already in very short supply.  Moving on up the generational versions of Mainline Gaming cards, the HD 3650 came next, and when this reply was still new, those were available quite widely).  You almost certainly have an AGP video bus, so there is no Geforce choice available to you (nVIDIA stopped producing new ones of those with their Gefirce 7n00 generation, in 2006). 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 31 mai 2011 - 05:24 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Vantharas wrote...

ATI Radeon 5970

The patch should not have affected the Direct3D APIs, but it could have messed up the game's own graphics system.  It is Dx9 and the Video Drivers that can alter Windows' recognition of the video card when you are running what the game requires you to have for a video card.  Start with the easiest reinstall, which is drivers, move on to Dx9, and last, reinstall the game itself.

(P. S. added in edit 2-24-2011 -- occasionally, this error message is
triggered from mixing up screen ratio settings between wide screen and
standard 4:3 ratios.  Be sure you are starting out from a resolution
that matches your display's ratio.)


Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 25 février 2011 - 12:22 .

[Vantharas]

didnt work

[Gorath Alpha]

Vantharas wrote...

didnt work

Hmmm?  I am scanning through all of the threads that the forum's SEARCH matched up to the search word "detect" and Vantharas here never wrote another message that the database recorded.  We can't tell whether or not he reinstalled all three (driver, Dx9, & game), just one, or how many before giving up.  There really were a great many more of these "unsupported video" message threads than I had fully realized had been passing through. 

SilentShaddo wrote...

man something is messing up bad

Silent Shaddo also gave up and never wrote another message. 

The most common reason for the error message is trying to use one or another of Intel's very many, very bad, video chips.  Old video cards come in second, and broken internal Windows communication among game, drivers, and Direct3D is last.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 10 janvier 2012 - 06:19 .

[IG72]

I have an older machine (Dell Dimension 8400) and would like to know what Video card is recommended I upgrade to so I may run the game. I have a 2.99 GHz Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. My current video card is an ATI Radeon 300 series that came with the machine. I am aware I may have wattage limitations with my board. Any suggestions on a video card I could pick up for under $150?

[Gorath Alpha]

IG72 wrote...

I have an older machine (Dell Dimension 8400) and would like to know what Video card is recommended I upgrade to so I may run the game. I have a 2.99 GHz Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. My current video card is an ATI Radeon 300 series that came with the machine. I am aware I may have wattage limitations with my board. Any suggestions on a video card I could pick up for under $150?

Dell's specifications for power supplies always were way out in front of any other competing big name branded lines, so that a 250 watt Dell PSU was as good as most anyone else's 350 watt. 

Personally, however, it is my opinion that the Intel P4 processor series is just not that good compared to almost anything else at all.  When your PC was new, Intel had fallen way behind the standard set by the AMD 64 bit CPUs.  I don't feel good about recommending to upgrade such a system on a value received basis, even for the $70-$110 that you can do it with by using Newegg (stateside buyer). 

Nevertheless, here is the best card in its class, the HD 4670:    www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

That one is $110, after the rebate comes back.  If that's too much, here's an HD 4650:

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

That one is $70 after the rebate comes back. 

Good luck.

Gorath
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[IG72]

That's good to know. I think I will save my money for a new laptop with an Intel Core II Duo T6600 processor and 4 Gig of RAM that I saw. It has a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 video card, will this machine do a good job of playing my Dragon Age game? I would love an i7 machine but that would be another $300 bucks. I guess we'll see what the tax man gives me back . Thx.

[Titius.Vibius]

IG72 wrote...

That's good to know. I think I will save my money for a new laptop with an Intel Core II Duo T6600 processor and 4 Gig of RAM that I saw. It has a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 video card, will this machine do a good job of playing my Dragon Age game? I would love an i7 machine but that would be another $300 bucks. I guess we'll see what the tax man gives me back . Thx.

If you can save further, wait for the i7, there's no need to rush if you are buying just to play DAO. Geting i7 is a good investment not only for gaming but other tasks as well.

[Gorath Alpha]

IG72 wrote...

That's good to know. I think I will save my money for a new laptop with an Intel Core II Duo T6600 processor and 4 Gig of RAM that I saw. It has a 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 video card, will this machine do a good job of playing my Dragon Age game? I would love an i7 machine but that would be another $300 bucks. I guess we'll see what the tax man gives me back . Thx.

The very small cost difference between a mobile versuion of either 4600 card and that one you are interested in will increase the game playing capability by a far greater amount than representred by the added cost. 

Gorath
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[IG72]

Ok, if the tax man is nice to me here is my dream machine: Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor, 4 Gbyte RAM, and a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 230M video card. Will this machine put me in DAO graphics bliss? Thx for the info.

[Gorath Alpha]

IG72 wrote...

Ok, if the tax man is nice to me here is my dream machine: Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor, 4 Gbyte RAM, and a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 230M video card. Will this machine put me in DAO graphics bliss? Thx for the info.

I've been less than happy with nVIDIA's treatment of its loyal custiomers and haven't paid a lot of attention to their various GT2n0 products, which have often been merely more of the 8n00 cards renamed a second time, but this is apparently a new one, and takes the place of the 9400 GT, whose performance it resembles. 

It should run the game as well as any minimum card-plus, if not quite "great" (it is, after all, still a business level card, albeit at the upper end of that class, not in Mainline territory).

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 27 novembre 2010 - 12:55 .

[HellsChaos]

I am running a Compaq Presario R4000 Laptop, which has installed ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series. I upgraded the driver to Catalyst 0, but the game cannot detect my video card. What can I do?

[Gorath Alpha]

HellsChaos wrote...

I am running a Compaq Presario R4000 Laptop, which has installed ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200 Series. I upgraded the driver to Catalyst 0, but the game cannot detect my video card. What can I do?

Exactly one thing.  Replace that way too old laptop with a newer one that has the required SM3 pixel shaders in its video.  Yours is at least four years old now.

Even if your laptop had been a year newer, but still in the dark ages with an IGP (Xpress1200), it would not have played the game satisfactorily.  IGPs are always too slow.

Sorry.  The warning label on the game box was explicit. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 janvier 2010 - 03:10 .

[Gorath Alpha]

As long as there is no way to erase a screwup like this one, here is a link to a contemporary review of the now 4 1/2 year old Compaq Presario R4000, which was not at all difficult to find, using Google:

www.notebookreview.com/default.asp

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 janvier 2010 - 03:18 .

[HellsChaos]

I have never had a problem with the graphics card prior to this, and really, who walks around knowing the comparability ;p

Thanks for the help, ill try to contact the store for a rebate.

[Gorath Alpha]

HellsChaos wrote...


I have never had a problem with the graphics card prior to this, and really, who walks around knowing the comparability ;p
Thanks for the help, ill try to contact the store for a rebate.

Are you saying that you had no idea that the laptop you were buying wasn't a new one? 

There is a reference article here on-site about video cards.  I will add the link in a moment, but the fact is that you do not now have any "Video Card" at all.  By definition, "Cards" are entirely separate circuit boards that are added to mainboards after both are completed.  Integrated Graphics (IGP) chips are buried inside of a large ASIC that is the second of two chips making up the mainboard's "Chipset".

Rather few laptops are sold with real video cards included. 

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/519461

Gorath
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[HellsChaos]

Oh, ic. thanks for the input.

I was actually referring to returning the game, not my laptop, which ive had for years. Cant afford to get a new laptop or PC, so no point in holding onto the game.

Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the help and the information!

[Gorath Alpha]

HellsChaos wrote...

Oh, ic. thanks for the input.
I was actually referring to returning the game, not my laptop, which ive had for years. Cant afford to get a new laptop or PC, so no point in holding onto the game.
Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the help and the information!

Compared to laptops, desktop PCs are both easy to upgrade, and the parts to do so are quite inexpensive.  PC Gamers get familiar with some of the upgrades fairly quickly because of the way that games and PCs evolve relatively rapidly.  Where a new laptop with gaming quality parts inside it might cost from $1200 to $1800, a similarly equipped desktop machine would cost $800 to $1200 or so, and a gamer building his own systems can do it for under $500, but typically will spend more and get good parts that in a custom build from a boutique or white box shop would cost $2500 or more, getting a savings of $800- $1100 less than that.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 janvier 2010 - 03:45 .

[HellsChaos]

cool.

thanks again.

[HellsChaos]

cool. thanks again.

[heat_9000]

i sorry but i dont no what 2 do i have a 4 year pc and not a good video card what do i do

processor:   Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20GHz

Display adapter: RADEON 9600 PRO Family (Microsoft Corporation)

Driver Version: CATALYST 04.3

Sound Adapter: Creative SB Audigy LS

Operating sytem :Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Directx: DirectX 9.0c (Nov2007)

plzz help and thz