Demo doesn't load with latest graphics drivers (resolved)

[gigmush]

Hi all,

I downloaded the demo from Steam. I use Windows 7 64 bit and an Nvidia 8800 GTS card with the latest drivers (Forceware 258.96 WHQL).

Clicking "Launch Game" from the launcher results in a crash with the following message:

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FATAL ERROR: Renderer #0 could not be initialized! Make sure your graphic card drivers are up to date. Check log file for more information.

The crash occurs with all graphics and sound settings in the launcher.

The resulting log is:

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-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20100818114615

Creating Engine Modules
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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
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
  Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
  Renderer: GeForce 8800 GTS/PCI/SSE2
  Version: 3.3.0
  Max texture image units: 32
  Max texture coord units: 8
  Max user clip planes: 6
  Two sided stencil: 1
  Vertex Buffer Object: 1
  Anisotropic filtering: 1
  Max Anisotropic degree: 16
  Multisampling: 1
  Texture compression: 1
  Texture compression S3TC: 1
  Auto generate MipMaps: 1
  Render to texture: 1
  Max draw buffers: 8
  Max color render targets: 8
  Packed depth-stencil: 1
  Texture float: 1
  GLSL Version: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
  ShaderModel 2: 1
  ShaderModel 3: 1
  ShaderModel 4: 1
  OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
ERROR: Frame buffer 'Deferred_GBuffer_Main' is not complete! Format is unsupported!
ERROR: Could not create frame buffer for Deferred renderer type: 0!
FATAL ERROR: Renderer #0 could not be initialized! Make sure your graphic card drivers are up to date. Check log file for more information.

Once the demo actually started, with a resolution of 1024X768 (my native resolution is 1680X1050), but when I tried to run it again it failed and have done do since.

Hope you can help,
Thanks.

[Thomas]

It might be that your drivers, for some reason, only support a certain resolution size. And when u tried higher, they freaked out

Have you tried restarting computer?

Otherwise it might be some setting thing, and to fix that download latest drivers, uninstall old, reboot, install new, reboot.

I know u say you already have latest, but sometimes installations gets messed up and u need to make a fresh install.

[gigmush]

First of all, thank you for your quick reply Thomas.

The demo works for me now, regardless of graphics settings!
Indeed, all I had to do was to reboot my computer after installing the game.
I don't understand why, as the game has no drivers that need to be loaded at boot process (or does it?), but it works and that's all that matters to me

And now for the next logical step: Pre-ordering the game from Steam!

Thanks again Thomas.