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Forcing Zero-K to use a particular graphics card

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8 years ago
ZKL runs fine, but when I click PLAY NOW on any of the Missions (or if I try to run Chobby), I get an error message that says "No OpenGL drivers installed" (among other things), which is followed by another error message saying that I am missing certain OpenGL extensions, and identifying my graphics card as "GDI generic", which I presume is the graphics card built onto the motherboard. I am using Win7(32-bit) and my graphics card is AMD Radeon HD8490 (according to Device Manager). I have tried updating my drivers a dozen different ways and, while they always seem to install properly, I always still get the same message about OpenGL when trying to play ZK. The AMD graphics card should have OpenGL support but the "GDI generic" graphics card probably doesn't(?). I suspect that ZK simply isn't seeing the AMD graphics card and is instead trying to use the generic on-board graphics card which doesn't support OpenGL.

I have tried using the Adv. Settings tab in ZKL to find a relevant setting but it doesn't seem to do anything, so I've opened various setting files in notepad to see what I find. Specifically, lups.cfg has a section called "Force Card Detection", which sounds promising. Currently the "vendor" and "renderer" settings in this section are set to some random values which don't pertain to my AMD graphics card. Assuming the "Force Card Detection" settings will fix my problem, what should I put for "vendor" and "renderer"? On a hunch, I tried "AMD Radeon" and "HD8490", but that didn't work. What should I do with these settings? Am I on the right track or barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks for any help you can offer.
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8 years ago
Is it one of those laptops with automatic switching between two graphics cards?
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8 years ago
It's an Optiplex 9020 desktop computer. It wasn't originally meant for gaming, however the hardware is good enough as far as I can tell. I don't know anything about automatic switching between graphics cards. I haven't come across any settings that suggest this feature exists in this particular computer.
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8 years ago
Changing lups.cfg won't fix anything related to starting Spring. Try your graphics card settings. I know that Nvidia lets you set set graphics options on a per-program basis and your setup might have something similar.
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I have an old PC that runs Spring on a HD 5570 (with drivers from 2009). If I go to the "Catalyst Control Center" this is what is displayed as driver:


Did you check if OpenGL is mentioned there?

Also just to make sure, because I've seen ppl fail at this: Is your screen plugged into the GPU?
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Thank you very much for you help. The monitor wasn't plugged into the GPU :P

Now when I open the Catalyst Control Center, I see all sorts of options and information that wasn't there before.
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