Game crashes on start up

[loftar]

I had a look at the error report, and the shader it failed to compile is really the simplest possible shader:

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#version 120

void main()
{
    (gl_FragColor = vec4(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0));
}


The only thing that could possibly go wrong would be the #version line, but since the implementation claims to support OpenGL 3.3, failing on that would at the very least be non-conforming. I can only assume that one of the updates did indeed update the driver.

As for performance, are you sure you're running with AMD's own drivers? Windows does ship with drivers for both nVidia and AMD cards, and they are known for their notoriously bad OpenGL performance.

[MagicManICT]

Win10 installs the Catalyst package. The problem is automatic updating. Go under your network settings and set your connection as "metered" and Windows will check for updates only, but wait for you to tell it to install them when you're not on a metered connection. This has been one of the big complaints of 10 as quite frequently "day of release" video drivers have bugs in them that take a week or two to get fixed, the bugs quite often being regression errors.

https://www.google.com/search?q=win10+s ... connection

Note: i completely missed you mentioning Windows 10. I'd have posted this sooner. Sorry.

[apoc254]

Well... I updated to the last release of graphics drivers on this old pc. It runs exactly the same as the stock windows update version. 3fps in town and 5 fps out of town. No worries, I have a much better pc that I normally play this with. it gets an astounding 15 fps on haven and hearth(but managed to run SCII an medium/high graphics settings just fine).

There must be a very specific build of pc out there that is required for haven and hearth 60 fps gameplay.

[MagicManICT]

Given some of the reports I've heard from people, you're getting about what others get with a c 2010-2012 PC.

There must be a very specific build of pc out there that is required for haven and hearth 60 fps gameplay.

This could be an interesting survey as to what people had and what was working good. I'm sure it's something in the rendering pipeline that isn't being handled by the GPU properly and overloading the CPU.

[apoc254]

To keep your tally up to date, this pc was a completely new product from HP 2 years ago and is running their A8 processor.(which 2 years later, they have only come out with the A10, which is better... but not significantly.) Many A8 processors are still sold on the market today around the $400 price range.