Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. - FIXED - minvidmem

[ab3n]

Hey all,

I have played this game on my laptop since it was released and have enjoyed it to no end. I have recently upgraded to vista on this laptop and now when I try to start CoH (1.5) I get the following error:

"Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device."

The game played flawlessly in xp and nothing else has changed. Any ideas? Let me know if you need any additional info, thanks!

***Just found the solution with a little searching, ignore.

[ÜberJumper]

What was the fix?

[ab3n]

Just had to add "-minvidmem 29" to the target in the shortcut.

[ÜberJumper]

Ahhh yes. Shared laptop memory. Thanks for the update.

[beauner]

I have pretty much the similar problem, but i cannot edit the target line. For some reason the computer wont let me. Any ideas?

[ÜberJumper]

What error do you get?

[beauner]

I got the same error as above (the "failed to find the rendering device" one). But when i try to edit the target line in the shortcut, as is suggested above, it just wont let me like the option is not available.

[ÜberJumper]

See this thread:

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=109664

for how to add the command line shortcut.

[beauner]

Yeah i found that earlier but im still unable to edit the target line. It appears in grey writing instead of black, like is usually the case when the option to edit is unavailable. ive taken a screen print to show you......

[Mac_Bug]

Under security or somethign like that you need to give your login full control over that shortcut in order to edit it

[beauner]

Yeah under the security tab it says i have full control over the options, yet i still cant edit it along with most other things. I appreciate the help though guys!

[ÜberJumper]

Go into the directory where you installed CoH. Find the RelicCoH.exe, right click on it, and pick Send To>Desktop - Create Shortcut.

Then modify your desktop shortcut.

That looks like some kind of Media Center shortcut perhaps.

[beauner]

Cheers guys thats done it! Appreciate it alot!

[Eckersely]

Hey guys, iv had the same error and have tried everything i can to fix it but still can't get it to work. When i try add the -minvidmem 29 to the target text it gives me an error saying, "the name " '"c:\program files (X86)\thq\company of heroes\relicCOH.exe"-minvidmem 29' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct."
any idea's to this or am i doing something wrong?
thanks

[GeoffS]

Make sure you have a space in front of the -minvidmem 29

[Eckersely]

alright thanks that was the problem, but its still giving me the same error even with the the -minvidmem 29 added in. I also tried -minvidmem 32 as another relic forum advised but that too doesn't help. here's my dxdiag if anyone can see anything wrong on it. thanks again
DxDiag.txt