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Can't start amnesia! - Soulspliff - 10-22-2011

Hi everyone,


i'm having a hard time trying to play amnesia.

I HAVE looked through the support thread and i know there are a lot of people with the same problem but i've tried everything i know or found but i can't manage it.

So the game detects my graphical card as "GDI Generic" instead of "ATI RadeonHD 4570".

i'm getting the Amnesia.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCES_VIOLATION in module unknown at 001B:00000000
and the game wont load. I Have tried the following:

-I went in to the device manager but i could only find my ATI card i can't seem to find that GDI Generic in the hardware section so i think that's ok?

-I have updated my driver put it doesn't make any difference and i don't know if i have an integrated card (i think the ati is the integrated one?) so i can't update those.


- i've read this :3) Enter the control panel for the graphics card and set the proper (non-integrated) card as the preffered device to use. Here is how it looks for a user(nvidia): http://frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-...l#pid34691

but i can't find my graphics card in the control panel.

my hpl.log is:

[ spoiler ]Version 1.20 - s26ADEE0-539
-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20101021192547

Creating Engine Modules
--------------------------------------------------------
Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Resources Module
--------------------------------------------------------
Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Graphics Module
--------------------------------------------------------
Init lowlevel graphics: 1024x768 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' posSad-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: Microsoft Corporation
Renderer: GDI Generic
Version: 1.1.0
Max texture image units: 3
Max texture coord units: 4
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 0
Vertex Buffer Object: 0
Anisotropic filtering: 0
Multisampling: 0
Texture compression: 0
Texture compression S3TC: 0
Auto generate MipMaps: 0
Render to texture: 0
Max draw buffers: 13
Max color render targets: 21
Packed depth-stencil: 0
Texture float: 0
GLSL Version: (null)
ShaderModel 2: 0
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0 [ / spoiler ]

My specs:
Acer Aspire 5536G
Win7 ultimate 32bit
ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570
AMD Athlon 64 x2 processor QL 64 (2.1 Ghz)
4 gb Memory

(btw i'm dutch so if someone happened to be able to help me out in dutch i would love u for ever rofl)

So please help me because it still wont work Sad




RE: Can't start amnesia! - plutomaniac - 10-23-2011

You have no graphics card drivers installed, make sure you have this installed:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-32.aspx


RE: Can't start amnesia! - Soulspliff - 10-23-2011

i will give it a try thx for the reply
i'll post what it gives =)

edit: It worked thank you so much =D


RE: Can't start amnesia! - plutomaniac - 10-23-2011

it's nothing, have fun playing the game