Spiral Knights - Graphics Card Crashing

Graphics Card Crashing

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Dom, 11/27/2011 - 00:44

Hikari-Kenji

Hello, I have just downloaded this game from Steam. I've played for an hour and I love it. The gameplay is fresh, and the graphics are charming. However, I'm having major problems with my graphics card, which resets itself pretty much every level. I've played this in fullscreen initially, and the VPU reset causes me to blackscreen. I can hard-refresh my screen but I'm pretty much dead when I get back in the game.

I've looked around the forums and read the sticky, doing everything on there, but to no avail. I have my settings at lowest, vsync disabled, and not in fullscreen. I boot up the game (I'm in the main town) and it crashed three times when loading the level alone. By the third crash, my graphics card fails and I'm required to restart my computer.

Now I'm on a pretty old laptop, seven years old to be exact, an old DELL Latitude D600. I meet all the system requirements except my graphics card has only 32MB memory. I don't know if that is the problem or not but please don't just shrug off my problem by blaming it on this.

Here's my projectx.log:

projectx.log 2011-11-26 - Pastebin.com

And here's my dxdiag:

DxDiag 2011-11-26 - Pastebin.com

I hope you can help me solve this issue, or at least point me in the right direction.

Dom, 11/27/2011 - 06:17

Juances

play tetris?

The minimun requirements are 64mb, you have half of that. If you don't have enough memory there is no way for the game to play properly. All the required calcualtions/process/effects/etc and stuff won't fit, bottlenecking or freezing the PC.
Even if you find a workaround to make it work you may stress the machine a lot, have serious lag, graphic artifacts on screen,etc and thats bad for you.

You already said the graphics card fails and have to restart the computer. That's a warning, you are killing it.

Dom, 11/27/2011 - 13:24

Dogrock

One thing that could help a

One thing that could help a bit would be to enable Compatibility Mode (Options -> Advanced Video Options). This will prevent the game from calling on render techniques that your card does not appear to support fully.

Dom, 11/27/2011 - 21:58

Hikari-Kenji

No thanks, I'll play Minecraft.

Thank you, Dogrock. I will try that.

EDIT: I'll add a bit of specifics as to what actually makes the VPU crash. When I start a new character and enter the tutorial area, the game runs just fine until I encounter the second mob at around the middle of the level (Chromalisks, I think they're called). It crashes right when they spawn (I can't see them before they crash, only after it resets). That and it crashes three times while loading Haven.

I hope these details help to narrow the problem down.

Lun, 11/28/2011 - 21:21

Starlinvf

I'd almost hate to ask whats

I'd almost hate to ask whats the date on your video drivers. The Radeon 9000 meets the basic hardware requirements (just barely), but if the drivers are circa 2002....... *shudder*

Mar, 11/29/2011 - 16:50

Hikari-Kenji

As I've said, I read the

As I've said, I read the sticky and followed the directions, and that includes updating my drivers; they're fully updated. If you looked at my DxDiag, you'd see that the driver is dated November of 2005.

I've tried the compatibility mode, but it still crashed nonetheless. I've also tried turning hardware acceleration down (and off as well) but the game won't start without it.

Mar, 11/29/2011 - 20:11

Starlinvf

Then your pretty much stuck.

Then your pretty much stuck. Its not really worth the effort to confirm the memory starvation since there isn't anything you could do about it anyway.

Mié, 11/30/2011 - 17:30

Hikari-Kenji

Yeah, it's meaningless so I'll just play a better MMO.

If there's even a slightest possibility of fixing this problem, I won't give up even if you do. It may not be worth it to you, since it's not your problem but it is to me.

So can anyone else help me with this?

Mié, 11/30/2011 - 22:20

Starlinvf

I your that determined to

Your basically trying to defy an already low hardware requirement using ancient hardware.... Nothing short of a game engine rework is going to accommodate that.

If your that determined to play, see if you can find a cheap laptop with an NV x40 or AMD x550 class graphics chip. You could dip even lower, but everyone always ends up regretting the poor performance and lack of upgrade options. I would had suggested a Sandybridge CPU since the intel graphics on it is pretty decent, but the price/performance ratio can't beat discrete graphics.

Mié, 11/30/2011 - 23:53

Hikari-Kenji

It's not that I'm determined

It's not that I'm determined to play this specific game, I just don't like leaving things unfinished. If there's a way to play this game on my laptop, I want to know how. If not, I have countless other games to play. And if I had money to spend on a new computer or laptop, I would just save it for the desktop I'm planning to build. And when I do get that desktop, I'll definitely forget about Spiral Knights, because there are countless more games that I'd be able to play on it.

Too bad too, I had high hopes for this game since it's from Sega. I guess I should have learned my lesson after Fantasy Earth Zero... *Sigh*

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