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I don't know how to find AMD drivers!

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8 years ago
I decided to try playing Z-K again about a week ago, but spring would crash upon loading into the game. An error messege told me to "Update your drivers".

Anyway, after I changed my PC from Ein 7 to Win 10, running Z-K pops up additional messeges that Win 7 did not, saying I do not have Open GPL drivers instaled. I am definately up to date as far as support.amd.com is concerned, but I'm missing extensions for:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_compression.

It says I have
graphics card: GDI Generic
OpenGL version: 1.1.0

I actually have
intel core i5 2.27 GHZ procesor and
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series

Which used to run Z-K before my harddrive crashed.

I've heard AMD and OpenGL don't mix well before.
Adittional note: I recieved more informative error messeges in Win 10 than in Win 7, also in Win7 Spring loaded up and went to full completion, showing the map and glitched out/invisible wigets before crashing. Spring did not even start in Win10.
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Skasi
8 years ago
Just to get this out of the way, if your only problem is "I don't know how to find the right driver", did you try the "Automatically Detect and Install Your Driver" tool on AMD's Driver download page? (direct link to .exe)

Your post sounds a bit like you might've already gotten the right driver, but Windows still complains, is that right?
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Yes, I've used the automatic detect what driver I needed(states I'm up to date) and tried manually downloading the proper driver itself for giggles.

I don't know anything about OpenGL, does that have a page of downloads I could use?
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8 years ago
Could you post your infolog of a crash?
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OpenGL (at runtime. Specifically, its state calls and shader compilation) is entirely handled by the drivers. AMD/ATI is notorious for breaking things in driver updates, so you may need to downgrade your driver.
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http://pastebin.com/YDY5HJMw

How would I downgrade my drivers?
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8 years ago
AUrankSmokeDragon: AMD's site, find your card, find your OS, then after clicking on the appropriate OS find "Download Previous Drivers & Software" on the right sidebar and click that.
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8 years ago
@ShadowFury333 thanks I think I've managed to download an old driver.

However now spring will start and load to 100% and crash on that load.

This is the infolog_ file.

http://pastebin.com/DCcBKjEq
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8 years ago
GL renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics
GLSL version: 1.20 - Intel Build 8.15.10.2900

drivers are still wrong :(
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8 years ago
Seems windows doesn't want to switch from integrated (intel CPU) to dedicated (ATI) graphics?
Try to install latest intel graphics driver (for lolz), or disable integrated graphics in bios (though i have no idea if it's possible with notebooks)?
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8 years ago
Are you on a laptop? AMD should have a utility to force the AMD card to be used instead of the integrated graphics. I'm afraid I can't easily check the name of it right now.
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8 years ago
It's a laptop (radeon mobility)
it's very possible that the intel driver is required for the AMD driver to function.
(as it relies on the intel card)
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