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Extension needed, how to fix?
Posted: 04 Jan 2006, 23:17
by FizWizz
A friend of mine tried to play Spring (another initiate, yesss........
), and it installed just dandy, but as soon as he tried to start up a game, an error window came up:
He says that he updated his drivers, so what would he need to do to get Spring working for him?
Posted: 04 Jan 2006, 23:32
by FizWizz
one more thing: his video card is 32 mb ATI 128 Rage Ultra
Posted: 04 Jan 2006, 23:47
by Dwarden
thats very old card ... very old ...
what operating system and what drivers ?
Posted: 05 Jan 2006, 00:31
by FizWizz
that computer uses Windows XP (not sure if it's Home or Pro), and he just updated the drivers for it through Windows' driver-update-thingy
Posted: 05 Jan 2006, 00:32
by Caydr
Shame on you both for trying to run anything on that video card. Stomp on it and then burn the computer it was in for good measure.
Posted: 14 Jan 2006, 07:58
by Maelstrom
Caydr wrote:Shame on you both for trying to run anything on that video card. Stomp on it and then burn the computer it was in for good measure.
Translation:
This video card is not very good. Remove it. Get a new one.
The card is so old that it does not correctly support the rendering stuff used in Spring, so Spring will not start. Happens with basically all old cards and integrated graphics cards.
Posted: 14 Jan 2006, 12:27
by IMSabbel
A more helpful hint:
Get the drivers from ati. Hardware drivers from windowsupdate suck per default...
Then, go in the options and deactivate EVERYTHING. No trees, no high res clouds, no shadows, ect.
THen it _should_ run, although very slow.
no
Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 23:05
by k994
i did everything you guys said (i had same problem) and i still get the error message everytime i try to play.
Posted: 25 Jan 2006, 15:25
by Weaver
Maelstrom wrote:This video card is not very good. Remove it. Get a new one.
You did this too? It is possible to buy a graphics card that will play spring for not much money.