Doom3 on vista

oglecowboy · 01-21-2009, 06:43 AM

I have a Gateway m305crv with vista home premium installed, attached to it an external drive with 160 gb. I installed Doom3 and made it compatible with xp. It didn't work. I tried to run it as is and it didn't work. It worked before when I had xp home on this laptop. I attached the reading that keeps popping up and hopefully you can tell me what it means.
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joeten · 01-21-2009, 12:06 PM

try updating your graphics card driver

**CatChick** · 01-21-2009, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeten

try updating your graphics card driver

I have discovered after *Many, Many Errors* and reading all my dump files, that I am NOT, "King of the Lab".

My vista business seems to have problems with almost every piece of hardware and driver I had. It especially did not like my nvidia drivers both on my graphics card and motherboard (even though I updated all my drivers).

I have therefore decided, that I have to rebuild my whole computer. I do a huge amount of graphics work with Corel Draw, a tremendous amount of file work.... and my whole computer freezes constantly!! I have done an awesome amount of research and many other people that have complained about vista seems to have problems with file work. So I am hoping that the new equipment along with drivers other then nvidia will change things for me since I do like vista.

Well, that's all I have to say for now.... other input would be appreciated.

>^.,.^<

joeten · 01-21-2009, 02:47 PM

hi did you update the chipset drivers for the mobo

oglecowboy · 01-22-2009, 08:46 AM

as far as display adapter driver I under the impression everything is up to date and if the video driver is what i think it is i looked into gateway and if i remember right this particular laptop don't have a video driver that is if i understood them correctly. been trying to figure out how and if it is possible to get a faster processor. I am working on getting a 80 gb internal hard drive sooon I hope.

**jcgriff2** · 01-22-2009, 11:33 AM

Hi -

Per your attachment in 1st post -

Code:

2191 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2
1008 MB System Memory
8 MB Video Memory

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

The error message is the aftermath.

My question, though - are the #'s in red correct for your system?

Here is info re: compatibility from Microsoft for Vista -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Pro...g=d&cid=&f=64p

You want "Certified for Vista" - don't settle for "works with Vista".

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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01-21-2009, 12:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
joeten Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3,194 OS: vista	Re: Doom3 on vista try updating your graphics card driver

01-21-2009, 02:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
joeten Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3,194 OS: vista	Re: Doom3 on vista hi did you update the chipset drivers for the mobo

01-22-2009, 08:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
oglecowboy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2 OS: vista home premium	Re: Doom3 on vista as far as display adapter driver I under the impression everything is up to date and if the video driver is what i think it is i looked into gateway and if i remember right this particular laptop don't have a video driver that is if i understood them correctly. been trying to figure out how and if it is possible to get a faster processor. I am working on getting a 80 gb internal hard drive sooon I hope.

01-22-2009, 11:33 AM	#6 (permalink)
jcgriff2 Moderator, Microsoft Supp Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Great State of New Jersey - away from the gross corruption of the Riverside County, CA, SO office. SHAMEFUL ! Posts: 10,132 OS: Windows 7, Vista Ultimate My System	Re: Doom3 on vista Hi - Per your attachment in 1st post - Code: 2191 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 1008 MB System Memory 8 MB Video Memory ****************** ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features******************** The error message is the aftermath. My question, though - are the #'s in red correct for your system? Here is info re: compatibility from Microsoft for Vista - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/ http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Pro...g=d&cid=&f=64p You want "Certified for Vista" - don't settle for "works with Vista". Regards. . . jcgriff2 . __________________ . . . . . . . . BSOD** Posting Instructions B Expecting a reply and waiting > 36 hours ? Send a PM to me containing a link to your thread Glad to be home in the Great State of New Jersey ! !