New install with issues.

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[dduister]

Well been a while since I have played and I decided that my new laptop should handle it better than my old one.  I downloaded and installed and patched the system. 

I am running a Toshiba Tecra R850 - i7-2620M CPU @ 2.7GHz 4 GB RAM
Video: AMD Radeon HD 6450M I am assuming shared memory because it says 2268MB

Any idea why this would not run when it did on my older laptop?

Symptom is that I see it initiasing but then when the full window opens it is just black, no menu and no audio is heard.

Updated video drivers and is Win7 64bit


Thought

[vin_sun]

Hello Dd ....

Welcome to the Forum.

Does your laptop have a separate (stand alone) video card ? This is a requirement to run SSE.

Please post the Dxdiag of your computer as an attachment. For instructions see this post:-

http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,23335.0.html


Regards
vin_sun

[dduister]

Here it is.

[vin_sun]

Hello Dd....

Apparently, the graphics card in your laptop does not seem suitable for SSE.

The minimum recommended HD 4850 has a rank of 67, whereas the HD 6450M in your laptop has a rank of 334. This seems to be the drawback mainly.

Regards
vin_sun

[dduister]

Well, I guess I scratch this game off than as useless.  All other computers in the house are older macs and the Windows laptop is a work machine so I cant change that.  It is to bad that like all other sims you can't just bring down the quality to fit.  I can play Modern Warfare 3 and several other high graphic programs.  Oh well, no ships for me.   

[VirtualSkipper]

Well, I guess I scratch this game off than as useless.

It's not the game which is useless, it is your PC which is useless for the game to run properly.  

[dexter7]

Found that out the hard way...