The demo (or the full game) wont start, i just get an error message? Intel Chipsets

[taviow]

I, too, cannot run the game.

-------- 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 GT/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.

Forceware drivers version: 258.96

It's worth mentioning that the game does run sometimes... badly.

Also, I ran the demo at the exact same settings: maxed except for SSAO samples, which I left at 16.

[Dunge]

Oh well, I can't explain it but maybe Nvidia driver installation have problem with OpenGL because it makes no sense but it works.

1-Go to device manager, select vga card, update driver, select from list, Standard VGA
2-Got to add/remove programs and uninstall everything from nvidia except PhysX.
3-Reboot in safe mode, make sure you still have nothing from nvidia (auto-windows-install) and still using Standard VGA drivers
4-Run DriverSweeper
5-Reboot in normal mode, re-install nvidia drivers
6-Reboot and play, IT WORKS?!?!

[nsaneone]

Oh well, I can't explain it but maybe Nvidia driver installation have problem with OpenGL because it makes no sense but it works.

1-Go to device manager, select vga card, update driver, select from list, Standard VGA
2-Got to add/remove programs and uninstall everything from nvidia except PhysX.
3-Reboot in safe mode, make sure you still have nothing from nvidia (auto-windows-install) and still using Standard VGA drivers
4-Run DriverSweeper
5-Reboot in normal mode, re-install nvidia drivers
6-Reboot and play, IT WORKS?!?!

Did all of this, ran the game once, it ran really slowly, had to force close it then when I tried to run the game again, I got this error again. This is really getting frustrating. It's not like I have a slow computer. I only get this error trying to run the game at 1920x1080, any other resolution works fine.

Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66GHz
2 GB of RAM
640MB GeForce 8800 GTS

[taviow]

Did all of this, ran the game once, it ran really slowly, had to force close it then when I tried to run the game again, I got this error again. This is really getting frustrating. It's not like I have a slow computer. I only get this error trying to run the game at 1920x1080, any other resolution works fine.

EXACTLY. Sometimes it runs, but REALLY slowly here. It also runs fine sometimes, as it's supposed to (VERY rare though), and sometimes it does not run at all.

I think we need a separate thread for ourselves since our GPUs are fine.

Probably an issue with Nvidia's drivers, since we're all nvidia GPUs.

[Kyote]

The game runs for me, but I'm baffled..I can't go above 1024x768 without it giving me the renderer #0 error. What is up with this? It runs fine, but I really dont' want to run a game at a 4:3 resolution on my lovely new 16:10 monitor! Running on a GForce GTS 9600 on Windows Vista 32bit..log file..


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

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
--------------------------------------------------------
Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9600 GT/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.

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Wait, I take that back. It is now crashing at every resolution

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Ok, no it isn't, sometimes it loads, sometimes it doesn't. I have the latest non-beta Nvidia drivers, I believe, so..what gives?

[Kyote]

Solved it, thanks to another forum post..all I had to do was delete the stupid MainDemo folder...blarg.

[nsaneone]

Solved it, thanks to another forum post..all I had to do was delete the stupid MainDemo folder...blarg.

I didn't play the demo and therefor do not have a demo folder. This is depressing. Good to see someone has actually gotten this game to work. I wish I could.

[solar21]

HD 4870, Win 7 32b, Intel Chipset.
I've black screen after launch too and moreover, whole system hang up and only hard reset works. There is no error message, no error in system log.
There is a window when i try to launch the game again - Last settings crashed the game, falling back to defaults.
I've tried almost everything - reinstall GPU drivers, reinstall game, launch Amnesia with detected settings, with lowest settings, different resolutions but everytime there's black screen and system hang.

My very short hpl.log:

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

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
--------------------------------------------------------
Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp

[urdogzm8]

I have a similar problem on my MacBook Pro. I have the most recent one, hardware requirements should be met without any trouble. When I run the demo it shows me the config window and then it crashes saying "Fatal Error: Unable to initialize display".
I would really love to buy the game but I need to be sure I can play it after I have paid for it :-).

[jens]

Have you tried a different resolution? In case the new MB Pro does not like a 4:3 ratio of 1024*768 or if you should try that instead of changing it if you did.