Errors running on Vista Beta2

Snarkey · 10-20-2006, 11:04 AM

I'm running Windows Vista Beta2 and was able to install Prey with no problem but when I go to run the game I get an error message. I'm just hoping someone else out there has encountered this and has a work around.

My systems config is:

CPU - 3.0 P4
RAM - 3GB
Video Card - ATI Radeon X800
Video driver - ATI 7.7.9.0
O/S - Vista Beta2

Here is the error message:

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

Prey 1.2.116 win-x86 Sep 18 2006 16:54:05
2999 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT
2944 MB System Memory
9 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
prey using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0xff851bf2
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x7dc00ede
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd06647b1
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0x57dce443
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0x263006fe
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0xcc075380
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0xead35190
Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0xed8ce397
Current search path:
z:\Program Files\Prey/base
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 (108 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 (10 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 (3739 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 (4111 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 (5337 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 (6270 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 (3318 files)
z:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
Couldn't open journal files
couldn't exec editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec preyconfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 7 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed
sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found
X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
********************
The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
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

IceColdDuke · 10-20-2006, 12:25 PM

Thats a really old build and its the driver you installed.

Snarkey · 10-20-2006, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IceColdDuke

Thats a really old build and its the driver you installed.

Yeah, I realize that. I've tried downloading the ISO for RC1 but after three tries it keeps ending up corrupted by the time I burn the ISO to DVD. Microsoft was supposed to send me RC1 on disk when it first came out and many weeks later I'm still waiting.

Unfortunately the latest ATI driver for Vista requires RC1 so I'm in a bit of a catch22 until I can get RC1 installed.

I just was surprised that Prey wouldn't run when All the other games I've loaded have had no problems. (Half Life 2, HL2 Episode 1, Far Cry, Oblivion, Quake 4, all with no issues.)

Oh well, worst case scenario I'll revert back to XP until I can get a good copy of RC1. (I've heard there are some issues with RC2, but I can't remember what I read)

New Horizon · 10-20-2006, 01:44 PM

Dude, you're not running beta software as your main OS are you? Huge mistake. I'm hoping you have a dual boot setup.

IceColdDuke · 10-20-2006, 02:17 PM

I've been running RC2 with out a problem I havent tried prey(lazy), truthfully the worst build of Vista was beta 2, like after a couple weeks I took it off till the interm build was released on MSDN.

You can run Vista RC2 as your main OS(Sence its a release canidate not beta), but dont run Beta 2.

10-20-2006, 05:42 PM

You should definatly upgrade to RC1, bare minimum.

-Maniac

Snarkey · 10-20-2006, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by New Horizon

Dude, you're not running beta software as your main OS are you? Huge mistake. I'm hoping you have a dual boot setup.

Not on a system that matters for work, no. But, yes on my toy, which also happens to have the most power of any of my machines for gaming, I am. It's a toy, if it breaks nothing lost but a reformat/reinstall while I get things done on my other systems.

Snarkey · 10-20-2006, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IceColdDuke

I've been running RC2 with out a problem I havent tried prey(lazy), truthfully the worst build of Vista was beta 2, like after a couple weeks I took it off till the interm build was released on MSDN.

You can run Vista RC2 as your main OS(Sence its a release canidate not beta), but dont run Beta 2.

I appreciate that feedback. I had read some negative things that made it sound like there were some serious issues with RC2. I'll take another look at downloading the ISO.

Snarkey · 10-20-2006, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maniac536

You should definatly upgrade to RC1, bare minimum.

-Maniac

Would love to if either Microsoft would ever send me the long promissed disk or I could get the ISO downloaded and burned without it ending up corrupted.

IceColdDuke · 10-20-2006, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snarkey

Would love to if either Microsoft would ever send me the long promissed disk or I could get the ISO downloaded and burned without it ending up corrupted.

This isn't the forum for vista problems: www.pro-networks.org or www.aeroxp.org. pro-networks is your best best.

Snarkey · 10-21-2006, 07:46 PM

OK,

So I just upgraded to RC1 and updated the ATI driver to the latest Vista version and I'm still getting the same error message.

As every other game runs fine in Vista it will be a very sad day for 2K if Prey doesn't run well at all in Vista.

IceColdDuke · 10-22-2006, 03:12 AM

Its not humanheads or 2ks fault for NVIDIA and ATI making shitty Vista drivers.

New Horizon · 10-22-2006, 10:37 AM

They can't be THAT shitty if they run everything else though. Just a minor issue, I'm sure it will be ironed out.

IceColdDuke · 10-22-2006, 12:01 PM

Are you sure you installed the forceware drivers for RC1? The WDDM drivers don't have OpenGL Support(WDDM means its Microsoft's driver thats sole purpose is getting the deskptop to show....not EXACTLLY true but you get the point).

Snarkey · 10-22-2006, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by New Horizon

They can't be THAT shitty if they run everything else though. Just a minor issue, I'm sure it will be ironed out.

Yeah, that was my feeling. I've run HL2, HL2 Episode 1, Quake 4, Far Cry, Oblivion, FEAR, Call of Duty 2, and a few others and they all ran flawlessly under Beta2 with the older drivers.

Snarkey · 10-22-2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IceColdDuke

Are you sure you installed the forceware drivers for RC1? The WDDM drivers don't have OpenGL Support(WDDM means its Microsoft's driver thats sole purpose is getting the deskptop to show....not EXACTLLY true but you get the point).

I would hope not, I'm running an ATI Radeon X800 card and Forceware is an NVidia driver. Unless somehow NVidia has become magnanimous enough to support ATI cards now and I missed it.

10-25-2006, 04:33 PM

I somehow do not think this is a video card driver error, more likely a audio driver or mainboard driver issue. You did enough to the video driver to remove that from the list of probable causes. What kind of sound card do you use?

-Maniac

Hudson · 10-25-2006, 05:01 PM

It could just be that the O/S isn't finished

Seriously though, i've read in magazines some people have had to actually hack their video drivers just to run the damn thing.

IceColdDuke · 10-26-2006, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hudson

It could just be that the O/S isn't finished

Seriously though, i've read in magazines some people have had to actually hack their video drivers just to run the damn thing.

Its not the O/S, is diffentlly the Vista drivers sense it has minimal OpenGL Support.

Hudson · 10-26-2006, 08:50 AM

So much for being "uncrippled"

ElAguila · 11-01-2006, 03:23 PM

It has to do with the fact that ati has poor support for any opengl games. If you look at the top of the error message you will see that it is only seeing your card as only having 9MB of video memory. It is a driver issue. I have the same problem on my x1900xt but only on opengl games. It doesn't matter if you have the Microsoft Driver or the ati driver. By the way ati says to use Microsoft driver for RC2 and not the RC1 driver.

10-20-2006, 05:42 PM	#6
Maniac536 Guest	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 You should definatly upgrade to RC1, bare minimum. -Maniac

10-25-2006, 04:33 PM	#17
Maniac536 Guest	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 I somehow do not think this is a video card driver error, more likely a audio driver or mainboard driver issue. You did enough to the video driver to remove that from the list of probable causes. What kind of sound card do you use? -Maniac

10-20-2006, 11:04 AM	#1
Snarkey	Errors running on Vista Beta2 I'm running Windows Vista Beta2 and was able to install Prey with no problem but when I go to run the game I get an error message. I'm just hoping someone else out there has encountered this and has a work around. My systems config is: CPU - 3.0 P4 RAM - 3GB Video Card - ATI Radeon X800 Video driver - ATI 7.7.9.0 O/S - Vista Beta2 Here is the error message: ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features. Prey 1.2.116 win-x86 Sep 18 2006 16:54:05 2999 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT 2944 MB System Memory 9 MB Video Memory Winsock Initialized prey using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing enabled Flush-To-Zero mode enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode ------ Initializing File System ------ Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0xff851bf2 Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x7dc00ede Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd06647b1 Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0x57dce443 Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0x263006fe Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0xcc075380 Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0xead35190 Loaded pk4 z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0xed8ce397 Current search path: z:\Program Files\Prey/base z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 (108 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 (10 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 (3739 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 (4111 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 (5337 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 (6270 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 (3318 files) z:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 (2 files) game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0 Addon pk4s: file system initialized. -------------------------------------- ----- Initializing Decls ----- ------------------------------ ------- Initializing renderSystem -------- using ARB renderSystem renderSystem initialized. -------------------------------------- 2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang Couldn't open journal files couldn't exec editor.cfg execing default.cfg couldn't exec preyconfig.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg 2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang ----- Initializing Sound System ------ sound system initialized. -------------------------------------- ----- R_InitOpenGL ----- Initializing OpenGL subsystem ...registered window class ...registered fake window class ...initializing QGL ...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB ...calling CDS: ok ...created window @ 0,0 (640x480) Initializing OpenGL driver ...getting DC: succeeded ...PIXELFORMAT 7 selected ...creating GL context: succeeded ...making context current: succeeded Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB ------- Input Initialization ------- Initializing DirectInput... mouse: DirectInput initialized. keyboard: DirectInput initialized. ------------------------------------ ...initializing OpenAL ...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed ...initializing OpenAL ...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): failed sound: STEREO X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found X..GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader not found X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found ****************** ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features. ****************** The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features. 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

10-20-2006, 12:25 PM	#2
IceColdDuke	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 Thats a really old build and its the driver you installed.

10-20-2006, 01:44 PM	#4
New Horizon	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 Dude, you're not running beta software as your main OS are you? Huge mistake. I'm hoping you have a dual boot setup.

10-20-2006, 02:17 PM	#5
IceColdDuke	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 I've been running RC2 with out a problem I havent tried prey(lazy), truthfully the worst build of Vista was beta 2, like after a couple weeks I took it off till the interm build was released on MSDN. You can run Vista RC2 as your main OS(Sence its a release canidate not beta), but dont run Beta 2.

10-21-2006, 07:46 PM	#11
Snarkey	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 OK, So I just upgraded to RC1 and updated the ATI driver to the latest Vista version and I'm still getting the same error message. As every other game runs fine in Vista it will be a very sad day for 2K if Prey doesn't run well at all in Vista.

10-22-2006, 03:12 AM	#12
IceColdDuke	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 Its not humanheads or 2ks fault for NVIDIA and ATI making shitty Vista drivers.

10-22-2006, 10:37 AM	#13
New Horizon	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 They can't be THAT shitty if they run everything else though. Just a minor issue, I'm sure it will be ironed out.

10-22-2006, 12:01 PM	#14
IceColdDuke	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 Are you sure you installed the forceware drivers for RC1? The WDDM drivers don't have OpenGL Support(WDDM means its Microsoft's driver thats sole purpose is getting the deskptop to show....not EXACTLLY true but you get the point).

10-25-2006, 05:01 PM	#18
Hudson	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 It could just be that the O/S isn't finished Seriously though, i've read in magazines some people have had to actually hack their video drivers just to run the damn thing. __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

10-26-2006, 08:50 AM	#20
Hudson	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 So much for being "uncrippled" __________________ Staying Frosty Since 09/06/07 - I love you Katie <3 “Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.” - Linus Torvalds “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin & Hobbes [INSERT SYSTEM SPECS THAT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HERE]

11-01-2006, 03:23 PM	#21
ElAguila	Re: Errors running on Vista Beta2 It has to do with the fact that ati has poor support for any opengl games. If you look at the top of the error message you will see that it is only seeing your card as only having 9MB of video memory. It is a driver issue. I have the same problem on my x1900xt but only on opengl games. It doesn't matter if you have the Microsoft Driver or the ati driver. By the way ati says to use Microsoft driver for RC2 and not the RC1 driver.