Graphics Card Troubles
by Rat Carlson · in Torque Game Engine · 01/23/2002 (8:12 pm) · 5 replies
Hello,
My friend and I were going to test out the latest build of my game. He downloaded it and set it all up right but when he clicked the exe a window popped up that said "Unsupported Graphics Card" or something along those lines. He has a Geforce 256 and I do recall him never being able to play Tribes 2 because of his graphics card. It's not a bad graphics card as I have seen it perform pretty good in other games and he does have the latest drivers. Well, getting to the point - Is there anything he can do to get it to work? If not why is this graphics card not supported? Thanks in advance because you've always been a big help in the past.
Andrew
My friend and I were going to test out the latest build of my game. He downloaded it and set it all up right but when he clicked the exe a window popped up that said "Unsupported Graphics Card" or something along those lines. He has a Geforce 256 and I do recall him never being able to play Tribes 2 because of his graphics card. It's not a bad graphics card as I have seen it perform pretty good in other games and he does have the latest drivers. Well, getting to the point - Is there anything he can do to get it to work? If not why is this graphics card not supported? Thanks in advance because you've always been a big help in the past.
Andrew
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#2
wtih -OpenGL and -DirectX command line options? Maybe it is still a driver issue, I cannot imagine it being much else and tough to really figure out without tracing through with the debugger on that machine to figure out exactly where the failure is occuring.
Any additional information you could provide would really help.
--Rick
01/23/2002 (9:45 pm)
A GeForce256 card should run the Torque (and Tribes2) just fine. I don't understand why you would be getting at unsupported card message. Have you tried running wtih -OpenGL and -DirectX command line options? Maybe it is still a driver issue, I cannot imagine it being much else and tough to really figure out without tracing through with the debugger on that machine to figure out exactly where the failure is occuring.
Any additional information you could provide would really help.
--Rick
#3
I think its a driver issue cause it happens on windows XP but when I installed windows ME all problems vanished and torque worked fine, back to windows XP and the problem came back...
01/30/2002 (10:19 am)
I have the same problem with a machine using a TNT2 card.I think its a driver issue cause it happens on windows XP but when I installed windows ME all problems vanished and torque worked fine, back to windows XP and the problem came back...
#4
--Rick
01/30/2002 (4:32 pm)
grrr I knew I didn't like XP. Now I have to buy it and install it. This will take a while guys hang in there.--Rick
#5
01/30/2002 (4:42 pm)
XP, torque, and, Gforce 3 runs fine. . . .only the new drivers by nvidia(64 bit). . . cause tribes 2's buildings to have a odd blue/green mirrory effect when you are inside them. 
Torque Owner Bryan Walters
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