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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Dexterhunter on November 12, 2008, 08:40:17 PM

Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Dexterhunter on November 12, 2008, 08:40:17 PM: I wasn't able to get on my computer for a few days.Not because I couldn't becuase I had other stuff to do.

Whenever I scroll a page up or down on the internet. It sorta "waves" the direction I'm going. It hard to describe really.
Later I tried opening up RA2 both DSL and stock. It refuses to open. I get these messages.

"Graphicsmanager: Unable to find suitable graphics devices. Try changing video resolutions."

After I click out of that this pops up.

"Robot Arena 2: Unable to initialize graphics engine."

After I click out of that this pops up.

"Application Error: giStartup::Winmain Initialization Failure. Press OK to terminate application."

Then it Closes down. I need help. Because this wavy motion is starting to piss me off.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Urjak on November 12, 2008, 08:47:42 PM: It might have something to do with your graphics card, as it seems all problems are graphics related.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Dexterhunter on November 12, 2008, 09:54:32 PM: Most likely. How would I go about modifying it?
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Urjak on November 12, 2008, 11:07:17 PM: Check your graphics settings. It may be a setting turned off or on when it shouldn't be, though I doubt it is that simple. You should still take a look though.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: goose on November 13, 2008, 01:50:50 AM: reinstall your video card drivers. you can get the most up to date driver on the cards website.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: man manu on November 13, 2008, 10:57:10 AM: HAHA! exactly the same thing happened to me about a year back. same error messages and everything. turned out my graphics card wasnt turned on. Took me about a month to figure out what happened lol
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Clickbeetle on November 15, 2008, 09:31:02 PM: Funny. Exactly the same thing happened to me just a month or so ago. With RA2 at least, I don't remember any wavy motion.

It was nothing to do with graphics. It was a memory problem. I just defragged the computer, and everything was fixed.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Dexterhunter on November 16, 2008, 12:10:36 AM: Just defragged my computer. Still got the wavy motion and no RA2.

Also, My graphics card or something might just be turned off. Could someone point me in the general direction on how to turn it back on?
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: ShadowArts on November 16, 2008, 09:21:48 AM: Wavy? Like as in, when scrolling down, the page goes down in chunks instead of a smooth slide? That happened to me a few weeks ago. I disabled hardware acceleration and it was fixed.

Right click the desktop, select properties, settings, advanced, then troubleshoot. move the slider all the way to the left.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: System32 on November 16, 2008, 09:53:28 AM: I had the same problem but with my sound card.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Dexterhunter on November 16, 2008, 05:30:31 PM: Cool, Thanks Shadowarts. That wavy motion was aggravating me. RA2 still refuses to open through.
Title: Well, my game is messed up, or my whole computer.
Post by: Dexterhunter on November 22, 2008, 01:15:34 PM: Ra2 still isn't working for those who think its fixed by now.