Video Display problem

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I just got Doom3 for Christmas. After installation I try to play it and get
the following error message:

DOOM 1.0.1282 win-x86 Sep 16 2004 16:45:51

2200 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE

448 MB System Memory

64 MB Video Memory

Winsock Initialized



********************

ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the
necessary features.

********************

Error during initialization

Shutting down OpenGL subsystem

....wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success

....deleting GL context: success

....releasing DC: success

....destroying window

....resetting display

....shutting down QGL

....unloading OpenGL DLL



I have an HP 3100+ with Windows XP and a 2.2 ghz AMD chip. In device
manager, under display adapters it says it's a VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP.



Can anyone help?



Thanks

 

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You have an integrated graphics chip on your motherboard. You have no chance
to play the game with that particular imbedded chip. You need a discrete
graphics card. (Add-in card) Providing that your motherboard has an AGP slot
in which to accept the add-in card. Many machines that have imbedded video
chips do not have such a slot. That is the drawback of buying such a
machine.

As another poster mentioned, the ATI 9800 or nVidia5900 is a good _starting_
point for graphics solutions. Those cards currently run around 175.00 but
you could spend up to 500.00 for the latest cards which I wouldn't suggest.




"James Chrislip" <jmchrislip@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Xpdzd.7865$L7.5877@trnddc05...
>I just got Doom3 for Christmas. After installation I try to play it and get
>the following error message:
>
> DOOM 1.0.1282 win-x86 Sep 16 2004 16:45:51
>
> 2200 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE
>
> 448 MB System Memory
>
> 64 MB Video Memory
>
> Winsock Initialized
>
>
>
> ********************
>
> ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the
> necessary features.
>
> ********************
>
> Error during initialization
>
> Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
>
> ...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
>
> ...deleting GL context: success
>
> ...releasing DC: success
>
> ...destroying window
>
> ...resetting display
>
> ...shutting down QGL
>
> ...unloading OpenGL DLL
>
>
>
> I have an HP 3100+ with Windows XP and a 2.2 ghz AMD chip. In device
> manager, under display adapters it says it's a VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP.
>
>
>
> Can anyone help?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>

 

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Michael-NC wasted my time on 12/25/2004 9:18 AM with the following:
> You have an integrated graphics chip on your motherboard. You have no
> chance to play the game with that particular imbedded chip. You need a
> discrete graphics card. (Add-in card) Providing that your motherboard
> has an AGP slot in which to accept the add-in card. Many machines that
> have imbedded video chips do not have such a slot. That is the drawback
> of buying such a machine.
>
> As another poster mentioned, the ATI 9800 or nVidia5900 is a good
> _starting_ point for graphics solutions. Those cards currently run
> around 175.00 but you could spend up to 500.00 for the latest cards
> which I wouldn't suggest.

I run Doom3 on a 2.8ghz Pentium4, 1 gig RAM, and an ATI 9600SE w/
128mb...its not the best rig ever, but i get a pretty good fps (around
30-40 on 800x600 medium quality) without disabling too much.

The 9600SE was about $100...personally, i've heard that Nvidia cards are
way better for doom3. But i dunno.

By the way Michael, its nice to see you making a post other than
something to flame doom3.

Merry Christmas all.


--
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"SnoopJeDi" <snoopjediHOLDTHESPAM@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Michael-NC wasted my time on 12/25/2004 9:18 AM with the following:
>> You have an integrated graphics chip on your motherboard. You have no
>> chance to play the game with that particular imbedded chip. You need a
>> discrete graphics card. (Add-in card) Providing that your motherboard has
>> an AGP slot in which to accept the add-in card. Many machines that have
>> imbedded video chips do not have such a slot. That is the drawback of
>> buying such a machine.
>>
>> As another poster mentioned, the ATI 9800 or nVidia5900 is a good
>> _starting_ point for graphics solutions. Those cards currently run around
>> 175.00 but you could spend up to 500.00 for the latest cards which I
>> wouldn't suggest.
>
> I run Doom3 on a 2.8ghz Pentium4, 1 gig RAM, and an ATI 9600SE w/
> 128mb...its not the best rig ever, but i get a pretty good fps (around
> 30-40 on 800x600 medium quality) without disabling too much.

I have an XP 2800 Barton Core with 1 GB ram and a 5900FX card. It runs
Doom3, HL2, FarCry, NFS2 and all the games out there just fine for my
tastes. I won't upgrade till the Athlon64 4000 is around 250.00$ There's no
sense chasing the latest hardware unless you like to have the latest and
greatest. IMHO, you pay a very high price to be on the cutting edge. I'm
guilty of one thing, I have a raid 0 setup with 2 10,000 RPM 75 Raptors in
my machine and I can tell you, that was a waste of money.

There's almost no such thing as a "gaming rig" anymore. With the fast
components that are out there today and _most_ game publishers still writing
games that work with the vast amount of slower hardware that is out there,
any machine with at least a 2.0GHz CPU rating, 512MB ram and a DX9 video
card can play most games with enough eye-candy enabled to make it enjoyable
and still have smooth frame rates. It's amazing how far hardware has come in
the last 5 years. Of course the OP is SOL if he doesn't have an AGP slot.
That class of machine is definitely _not_ a gaming machine. That's what I
meant by "almost." Some Emachine cheapo boxes that have integrated video
come with a AGP slot available but I don't think that HP does. The best
machines are the one you build or at least have standard PC architecture
hardware. I've been building my own for the past 10 years.

> The 9600SE was about $100...personally, i've heard that Nvidia cards are
> way better for doom3. But i dunno.

The ATI and nVidia cards are so close in performance, it's a wash. Only
benchmarks differentiate them, gameplay is what's important to me.

> By the way Michael, its nice to see you making a post other than something
> to flame doom3.

I only flamed D3 because of my profound disappointment in the game.

> Merry Christmas all.

Merry Christmas back at ya. I'm going to fire up the peanut oil and drown a
turkey in it now.

> Noob - "do you hack?"
> Justin - "i hack like a maniac!"
> Noob - "do you have digital cable?"
> Justin - "i have *ALL* the cables!"