Dragon Age: Origins Forum

Hi,

I just installed Dragon age origins and it went flawless.
When i push play i get "Failed to detect Supported video card"
I installed DirectX9 but still won't work . Im using Macbook pro 10.6.2Snow leopard 2.66 Ghz intel core 2 duo.

Thanks.

Here is the error i get .

Run regedit for the bottle you are using and under local user/software/wine/direct3d add strings and values for these...

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode fbo
PixelShaderMode enabled
useGLSL enabled
VertexShaderMode hardware
VideoMemorySize 256 or 512 depending on amount of VRAM your gpu has.

Set of your settings to low for the game, and it should run on you MBP w/ the Nvidia card. Movies won't play and from what I ahve seen on an NV card it will lock up if graphic settings are any higher...

Thanks allot brian . Its running on Low graphics now .
very fun and im enjoying it allot ;D

btw ... mage is OP ;D

Your welcome. Wish it would work for me on my MP w/ ATI 4870. I get black flicker constantly and can't run it on low graphics... all the NPC/PC characters lose there face, except for the eyeballs! :) Actually I have an nvidia card that would allow me to play in low settings if I reallu didnt want to reboot.

I still can't get those regedit settings to work for Call of Duty 4.... sucks... just blackscreen for me after black intros... :(

Any help?

callf of duty? i think youre in the wrong forum

Triple post - that's a first! Sorry, everyone.

As mentioned. Sorry, folks.

Hey Brian, I've been trying to follow your advice and run a regedit, but there seems to be a problem. Mainly, I didn't know how to run a regedit - much less a bottle specific one (that was the way I read your post). I tried launching Task Manager and going New Task -> regedit. This did indeed open a Registration Editor window. It did not, however, contain the folder you specified, and seeing as I'm not any kind of expert, I didn't want to mess with the folders that were there.

The folders at my disposition are as follows:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
HKEY_DYN_DATA

I tried doing as Luis Garcia instructed in the Video Card Error thread, but I couldn't work the instructions out. I could enter the 'manage bottles' part, select the bottle in question and go to the Control Panel menu. From there, however, it was gibberish to me - I couldn't just click on a 'run' button and then write regedit - I had to use one of the existing programs, which were as follows:

Add/Remove Programs
NVIDIA PhysX
reboot
taskmgr
winecfg

I tried the winecfg, and some of the options that you, Brian, mentioned in your solution walkthrough were indeed there - I could recognize the Vertex Shader Support (which was set to hardware from default - =() and the 'Allow Pixel Shader' (also enabled from default). The rest, I could not find or recognize.

All help would be greatly appreciated - I want to play this game sooo bad.
Thanks in advance - Laurids.

Laurids Lyngsø Rye wrote:

Hey Brian, I've been trying to follow your advice and run a regedit,
but there seems to be a problem. Mainly, I didn't know how to run a
regedit - much less a bottle specific one (that was the way I read
your post). I tried launching Task Manager and going New Task ->
regedit. This did indeed open a Registration Editor window. It did
not, however, contain the folder you specified, and seeing as I'm
not any kind of expert, I didn't want to mess with the folders that
were there.

The folders at my disposition are as follows:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
HKEY_DYN_DATA

I tried doing as Luis Garcia instructed in the Video Card Error
thread, but I couldn't work the instructions out. I could enter the
'manage bottles' part, select the bottle in question and go to the
Control Panel menu. From there, however, it was gibberish to me - I
couldn't just click on a 'run' button and then write regedit - I had
to use one of the existing programs, which were as follows:

Add/Remove Programs
NVIDIA PhysX
reboot
taskmgr
winecfg

I tried the winecfg, and some of the options that you, Brian,
mentioned in your solution walkthrough were indeed there - I could
recognize the Vertex Shader Support (which was set to hardware from
default - =() and the 'Allow Pixel Shader' (also enabled from
default). The rest, I could not find or recognize.

All help would be greatly appreciated - I want to play this game
sooo bad.
Thanks in advance - Laurids.

Hi,

If you can recall how to get regedit running again, you can ....

Download the following file;

http://rapidshare.com/files/332871112/direct3d.reg.html

Open the downloaded direct3d.reg in a text editor
Look for the line you need to change, change it, save the direct3d.reg file
Start regedit as you did so before
In regedit, the menu item Registry=>Import Registry File and point it to the above direct3d.reg file
The registry values will now be set, quit regedit and see how it goes...

Cheers!

Laurids Lyngsø Rye wrote:

I tried doing as Luis Garcia instructed in the Video Card Error
thread, but I couldn't work the instructions out. I could enter the
'manage bottles' part, select the bottle in question and go to the
Control Panel menu. From there, however, it was gibberish to me - I
couldn't just click on a 'run' button and then write regedit - I had
to use one of the existing programs, which were as follows:

really? gibberish? no run button? then you clearly are not were i said to go.

as you can clearly see im inside control panel tab were you said that u manged to get to and at the bottom there a nice big button that says run, under the run in bottle section.