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Can I get Wolfenstein The New Order running on my older ATI card?

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guppy44

I got this game as I've read success stories of getting it to run on older graphics cards. I'm not looking for ultra settings, even the lowest would suffice. Now, I know the minimum settings listed are for the "next-gen" experience, as per Bethesda's website, but I'm just looking for a chance to get it running.

My setup is:

AMD Phenom II x6 cores @ 2.8 GHz
10 GIG RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Radeon HD 4870 x2

I'm running what I believe are the latest drivers for the card, 8.970.100.7000 from 11/16/2012. I know the page recommends Catalyst 14.4, but my card is too old for that. I've updated .NET framework. Earlier today when I clicked "Play Now" it just popped up with a blue screen full of information, but the end stated

fatal error:wglChoosePixelFormatARB

Since rolling back my Catalyst version to 11.12, it no longer does that. It now "successfully" launched the game, but after a very slow/choppy Bethesda intro video and an equally slow/choppy MachineGames intro, the game just closes. There are no "This game has stopped working" boxes, no error messages, no anything. It simply closes as if it was never opened.

Does anyone have any thoughts or fixes? It appears it now opens, so I've made minor progress, but of course I'd just like to play.

Thank you in advance!

9 years ago*

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kar2ner

I had same "the game just closes. There are no "This game has stopped working" boxes, no error messages, no anything. It simply closes as if it was never opened." when tried to launch Watch Dogs on old dual-core PC. lel

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gluxia

Try running it on a single card.I know it works,i played it on HD 4650 1gb ddr2 on minimum settings,1440x900 resulution.

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guppy44

How do I do that? It's a x2 card, but it's physically a single card. No Cross Fire or anything.

I'm encouraged there's a way to do it since you were able to. Just need to find another trick it seems.

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gluxia

I thought its on crossfire,sorry.

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guppy44

No problem at all. Since you've gotten it to work with a similar card, any other suggestions? Which Catalyst/drivers are you running, if you don't mind me asking?

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gluxia

I not sure, the downloald of the drivers pack says 13.9. Maybe try to play in windowed mode. I played mine...lets say DRM free copy,whitch was compressed to be smaller size,had its ini files touched and other stuff.

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AloXX

It's a single card physically but there are still two GPU dies on the card connected by a crossfire bridge. You should be able to turn off one chip through Catalyst.

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MadTrader

You can't play wolfenstein on that card. It only supports Directx10.1 and the minimum requirements of wolfenstein is Directx11 and 64-bit Win OS.

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gluxia

realy? do you want me to make a video or something?

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MadTrader

No need because I already checked your game library and I saw that you don't have wolfenstein. You better check the minimum requirements of the game before you post BS.

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gluxia

I awready said i played a pirated version,unfortunatly i cant get AAA titles or realease day,i will get it when i hit the sales next year.

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AloXX

The game uses OpenGL

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MadTrader

You need to upgrade you video card. ATI 4870 only supports Directx10.1 and wolfenstein needs Directx11.

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ColbyTheDog

There's a pirated version floating around on the internet that has ps3's grahics. You should try it.

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LapioPimo

Thank you Jason Fernat

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ColbyTheDog

Np cub.

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SCHUMI4EVER

Lack of some tech on the card that's required...so no. You have a choice between just being kicked out of the game, or loading to a black screen.
In this case it looks like it's looking for the DX11 Pixel Shader version and not finding it.

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guppy44

Hmm, well looks like I either threw away a good chunk of money, or I can spend even more to buy it for PS3 or get a new graphics card. I hate to get a new card over 1 game... but I guess it would keep me playing newer ones coming out. Any suggestions for a card that can handle this game, and any foreseeable newer ones for a while, for around the $100 mark? I have a wedding coming up so I don't want to spend too much right now. In fact, I may just wait until after it and get a better one?

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aFineCubanCigar

I'd suggest to wait until after it, so you could get yourself a serious gaming card. But if you don't really want to wait, look for something in R7 lineup, like R7 260x or R7 265 - although not great, but decent enough for gaming. These will cost around $140-160.

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Duckstein

Get a second hand r290 by Sapphire. Those cards were/are the single best card for BitCoin mining.
Now that that has died off mostly, a lot of these cards are being dumped onto the market again with almost full warranty still on them. Should it burn out, you can send it in for replacement/repair in warranty normally.

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