ty!

Hit a bump in the road when trying to play Colin McRae Rally 2005 on my new XP. Installed and verified just fine but before the game launches I get an error saying "GraphicsSS_SetupRender Adapter has no modes!"


A quick search suggested that maybe the graphics card needs to be replaced, or there´s an issue with the Hz. Can anyone here chime in and provide any more information? Yeah, I´m looking at you, SubRosa and ghastley

In general, if it's a graphics issue, run dxdiag and see what that says. That will tell you if it's the card or the game that's at fault. It should require DirectX 9, but I don't remember what XP has by default.

My guess would be either a driver or Direct X issue. See what version of Direct X you have, and compare it to what the game says it needs. And look for a more recent version of the video card drivers.

I just left Puter at my computer guy´s home. He´ll replace the current card with Geforce 6200 or if it was 6800, I already forgot but I think it´s the latter.

Not the most powerful card out there even ten years ago but I do suspect the game will work with that. It´s supported by the game and what I saw on the webz the most likely problem is related to the card. I´ll see where this takes me and go from there.


Thanks for the tips, btw. I´ll check the DirectX specs later if it still won´t work.

The 6800 should play Oblivion at medium grapics, it is what my old PC had. Might not handle the Fallout 3 or New Vegas games though.


EDIT: Excuse me, my old PC had 8600; not 6800. So ... best be sure they know what kind of games you play!



This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 1 2016, 11:15 PM

For now I´m just trying to get Colin McRae Rally to work. I might also get a few other stuff on it later but I´m not planning to play Oblivion or Fallout on this machine.

It should play Chips!

So.


*hrrm*


Maybe some people will get off my back about using IE now?



I thought not

This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 30 2016, 05:09 PM

An informative video highlighting one of many benefits of using the ever glorious Windows 10.


No problems with Chorrol and Firefox for me today. What's your OS? (Windows 7 for me.)

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 30 2016, 11:48 AM

I am running W10 for an OS.

My primary browser is Firefox and it is working fine for me.

For troubleshooting purposes, I just brought chorrol up with both MS Edge and Google Chrome and both also work fine for me.

Although woefully ignorant on browers, it does seem that is where your problem lies mALX.

I have alerted the Admins here as to your situation but am hopeful that some of our members might also be able to assist you in troubleshooting your Firefox and Chrome. I'm so glad that IE is working for you!

Copy/paste the exact error message here. "some file is missing" isn't quite as precise as we'd need.

Did you unplug it and plug it back in?

As silly as it sounds, several months ago I was having a terrible time with my phone answering machine doing unreliable stupid things. I just happened to have the service provider out at the house for something else and mentioned it. The tech suggested exactly that - unplug it and plug it back in. By Kynareth's wings if that didn't instantly fix the problem!

Forcing the system to reload everything fresh often eliminates a temporary corruption of active data. How deep a restart is needed varies. Sometimes restarting an application, sometimes rebooting the machine, and the unplug, plug back in is the final level before you're considering deleting and re-installing things.

Windows, and the browsers, have a nasty habit of "upgrading" themselves without asking. Not all those changes work. At least Windows has a mechanism for rolling back a level, to where it worked before.

Windows 7 Professional.






This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 30 2016, 04:52 PM

My Win 7 Pro is currently having issues if I let Windows try and process the content of a zip file. That's not normally a problem, as I use 7zip file manager to look inside any compressed archive. However, when a file is downloaded, it tries to security scan it, and that can hang the system if it's in .zip or .rar format. The .7z files aren't an issue as it gives up trying to open them and look inside. Right now I have to download some things on my laptop (Win 10) and carry them over on a thumb drive.

That fault suddenly appeared and I didn't track what Windows update introduced it. They don't update Win 7 as often as the current releases, which may be a good thing!

Since IE is working, I doubt your problem is Windows, but the browsers update frequently as well. I just got Firefox updating itself to 50.

Not on my puter. Disabled that nasty habit immediately