How I made my game run properly just configuring my Catalyst

Rishard · 07-08-2011, 09:24 AM

Hi guys.

I bought this game at last hollyday sale and played it well at my notebook. But yesterday I tried to play it on my desktop (Win7/64x with ATI HD4780) and all I got was a white screen and a crash dialog.

I tried all the solutions I found in the internet, including:
- run the game and/or Steam as administrator
- all combinations of compatilibities configurations
- verify game files/reinstall the game
- download mods, game files and cracks
- edit game files to change maximum resolution

None of these seems to work, but I realised that the problem is with ATI driver and OpenGL. Some foruns say to revert your driver to an older version, but I play other games and I wouldn't do that just because of a single game. Then I tried to look inside Catalyst options for something that might help me. So I found this: in the Gaming menu, under 3D application settings, there is an OpenGL triple buffering option. I enabled it and the game worked perfectly! Whithout flicks or fast/slowmotion.

No compatibilities options enabled, no need to run as administrator, no need to edit any game file or download anything besides original Steam game.

Agent00Funk · 10-28-2011, 12:28 PM

Glad you found a solution, unfortunately not for me

Ricardo_73 · 10-28-2011, 07:48 PM

Thanks for trying to help, but it doesn't work for me. I "found" another solution too, but it only worked for two days (play offline), then stopped working. I can not explain, and apparently Steam doesn't care at all.

Wighar · 02-13-2012, 08:52 AM

I had this problem as well, lucky enough I bought the game on the Steam sale out of being lazy to look for my CD, and as I got the white screen crash as well, I decided to go look for my CD anyway.

Short story, I found the CD, installed it and started the game thinking it might start a white screen and crash, apparently not, the game started without fail straight out of the box so to say.

I think the problem with Steams version of the game is that its the US version of the game, the one I have is UK as I bought it several years ago via Amazon in the UK.

so the issue here, at least in my case was not GPU based but version based.

EDIT:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD6950
Compatibility settings on Executional: "none" didnt need to set any.
Steam in game overlay works?: yes

07-08-2011, 09:24 AM	#1
Rishard Join Date: Feb 2010 Reputation: 1 Posts: 8	How I made my game run properly just configuring my Catalyst Hi guys. I bought this game at last hollyday sale and played it well at my notebook. But yesterday I tried to play it on my desktop (Win7/64x with ATI HD4780) and all I got was a white screen and a crash dialog. I tried all the solutions I found in the internet, including: - run the game and/or Steam as administrator - all combinations of compatilibities configurations - verify game files/reinstall the game - download mods, game files and cracks - edit game files to change maximum resolution None of these seems to work, but I realised that the problem is with ATI driver and OpenGL. Some foruns say to revert your driver to an older version, but I play other games and I wouldn't do that just because of a single game. Then I tried to look inside Catalyst options for something that might help me. So I found this: in the Gaming menu, under 3D application settings, there is an OpenGL triple buffering option. I enabled it and the game worked perfectly! Whithout flicks or fast/slowmotion. No compatibilities options enabled, no need to run as administrator, no need to edit any game file or download anything besides original Steam game.

02-13-2012, 08:52 AM	#4
Wighar Join Date: Dec 2009 Reputation: 6 Posts: 59	I had this problem as well, lucky enough I bought the game on the Steam sale out of being lazy to look for my CD, and as I got the white screen crash as well, I decided to go look for my CD anyway. Short story, I found the CD, installed it and started the game thinking it might start a white screen and crash, apparently not, the game started without fail straight out of the box so to say. I think the problem with Steams version of the game is that its the US version of the game, the one I have is UK as I bought it several years ago via Amazon in the UK. so the issue here, at least in my case was not GPU based but version based. EDIT: OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD6950 Compatibility settings on Executional: "none" didnt need to set any. Steam in game overlay works?: yes Last edited by Wighar: 02-13-2012 at 08:55 AM. Reason: additional data

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10-28-2011, 12:28 PM	#2
Agent00Funk Join Date: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 9	Glad you found a solution, unfortunately not for me

10-28-2011, 07:48 PM	#3
Ricardo_73 Join Date: Aug 2008 Reputation: 17 Posts: 116	Thanks for trying to help, but it doesn't work for me. I "found" another solution too, but it only worked for two days (play offline), then stopped working. I can not explain, and apparently Steam doesn't care at all.