Failed to initialise video card. PLz help =]

[bronx]

Hello.

I installed DoW 2 days ago and have been playing it fine.

However today i tryed to change my video settings ingame to a higher resolution. From 16 bit to 32 bit.

the game then dissapeared and every time i try to start the game it says in a Red Error box, "Failed to initialise video card."

I have try to change my video settings back in the DoW Graphics Configuration utility, however it still comes up with the same error.

Ty.

:gonemad:

[bronx]

22:10:07.15 W40K started at 2005-10-14 22:10
22:10:07.15 OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
22:10:07.15 RUN-OPTIONS
22:10:07.15 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn Of War
22:10:07.15 USER jonathan telford
22:10:07.15
22:10:07.78 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=AMD Athlon:f=6,m=8, Mode=SSE
22:10:07.78 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'
22:10:07.78 GAME -- Warning: Failed to map folder 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'.
22:10:07.78 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.40, Build 78258.63110
22:10:07.78 GAME -- Available memory: 511MB RAM, 1927MB Pagefile
22:10:07.78 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
22:10:07.78 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
22:10:07.78 HostState - 10.10.3.85:6112 / 10.10.3.85:6112
22:10:07.78 Session : Now Host
22:10:07.78 Session : We are now a Host
22:10:07.78 PeerState - 10.10.3.85:6112 / 10.10.3.85:6112
22:10:07.78 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
22:10:07.78 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
22:10:07.78 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
22:10:07.78 SPOOGE - CheckDepthStencilMatch() failed( 75)!
22:10:07.78 SPOOGE - CheckDepthStencilMatch() failed( 75)!
22:10:07.78 SPOOGE - CheckDepthStencilMatch() failed( 75)!
22:10:07.78 GAME -- Failed to setmode in spooge
22:10:08.86 AppInitDevices -- Failed load for step: 'Graphics'

[TBS]

What happens when you choose "safe mode configuration" from the graphics config utility? That should set everything to low, including putting your texture depth back to 16 bit.

(the reason the game crashed when in 32 bit is because your card is rather old, you will have to stick with 16 bit).

[bronx]

i have tryed to put it on safe mode however this doesnt help. i beleive that it still is trying to put play it on 32 depth even tho i set it differently. it just wont change even if i do it manually.

i have re installed it 3 times with no success.

01:28:56.34 W40K started at 2005-10-15 01:28
01:28:56.34 OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
01:28:56.34 RUN-OPTIONS
01:28:56.34 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn Of War
01:28:56.34 USER jonathan telford
01:28:56.34
01:28:56.69 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=AMD Athlon:f=6,m=8, Mode=SSE
01:28:56.69 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'
01:28:56.69 GAME -- Warning: Failed to map folder 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'.
01:28:56.69 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.40, Build 78258.63110
01:28:56.69 GAME -- Available memory: 511MB RAM, 1927MB Pagefile
01:28:56.69 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
01:28:56.69 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
01:28:56.69 HostState - 10.10.3.85:6112 / 10.10.3.85:6112
01:28:56.69 Session : Now Host
01:28:56.69 Session : We are now a Host
01:28:56.69 PeerState - 10.10.3.85:6112 / 10.10.3.85:6112
01:28:56.69 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
01:28:56.69 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
01:28:56.69 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
01:28:56.69 SPOOGE - Windowed display does not support alpha channel (mode 23)!
01:28:56.69 SPOOGE - CheckDepthStencilMatch() failed( 75)!
01:28:56.69 SPOOGE - CheckDepthStencilMatch() failed( 75)!
01:28:56.69 GAME -- Failed to setmode in spooge
01:28:57.58 AppInitDevices -- Failed load for step: 'Graphics'
01:28:57.58 APP -- The application failed to initialize it's devices, code: 2
01:28:57.61
Application closed with error code 2

[bronx]

bring up my post

can anyone help?

[Moe]

Are you running the game windowed?

[Hello_Moto]

this may nothing to do with your problem but IMO, it might be worth running dxdiag (Start>Run>dxdiag) and checking to see if any of the following 3 options under the DirectX files tab have been disabled:-

DirectDraw Acceleration
Direct3D Acceleration
AGP texture Acceleration

the only time i encountered your problem ie. "Failed to initialise video card" was when i forgot to re-enable DirectDraw Acceleration after watching DVDs on my old laptop. (enabling that option caused a lot of video stuttering)

[bronx]

thank you for you response.

i have fixed the problem and it was very stupid on my behalf.

when i tryed to uninstall the game it let a folder THQ or what ever whihc contained infomation whihc stoppd me changing my resolution settings.

by deleting this folder after uninstalling will fix this problem on next install.

ty/