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Hello,
I have just installed Falcon 4.0: Allied Force on my Samsung NC10 and have updated it to the latest patch. After changing my display settings to 1024 x 768 (allegedly the minimum required by the program), it fails to load and crashes with the message “Requested resolution 1024x768x16 not supported”.
I have a “Moble Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family” for the display which I suspect is the problem. A friend suggested something to do with drivers.
By the way, I know the game will run because I plugged in an older monitor and it loaded fine. The point of course is to be able to play this on the go and a big monitor is not exactly mobile. On another post I saw someone say Falcon 4 ran fine on an nc10 so I am quite keen to get it to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Spud
Guess – try setting to 16bit colour (maybe).
My N220 defaults to 32 bit, maybe the game needs 16bit.
In my case its, right-click the desktop, Graphics Properties, Display Settings, colour quality.
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right click the desktop, screen resolution, advanced settings, on the tab, list all modes and pick 1024×768 16bit.Note the N220 has W7 starter and an Intel GMA 3150, but I would have thought yours has similar settings somewhere.
Maybe not but Probably worth a try. EDIT – Also found this on a google, maybe?
Hi Fred232,
Thanks for your comments. I tried changing the resolution as you suggested but unfortunately it comes up with the same error message. The google link I tried reverts the monitor to a really basic state which also doesn’t work.
Here’s a basic question: if I have an Intel chipset is it at all possible to get other drivers to work on the computer? From other forums it seems as if Intel graphics drivers are not always the best at running these games.
Thanks,
Spud
Spud, thats a shame.
With regard to drivers, not sure I follow. If by ‘other drivers’ you mean nvidia or ATI (example) then no. But you can update your Intel GPU drivers with newer correct intel ones. BUT search on this forum first for ‘brightness issues’ as some of the recent drivers seem to adversly effect the brightness adjustment.
If you say you can plug your monitor into your netbook and the game runs OK on the external monitor, then (I’m no expert but) I would have thought that it would be using the Intel GPU anyway. The problem may be that these netbooks dont have a real 1024×768 resolution (well the N220 doesn’t, not sure about your model) its native res is something like 1024×600 and the 1024×768 is acheived by a special software program supplied by samsung. Maybe this does not fool the game? Try taking the res even further, mine has a setting for 1152×864 and see if that helps – doubt it but worth a try.
If it is the GPU missing certain functionality then 3D Analyse may assist. I did find this to give you a general idea and the list of supported games includes your Falcon 4: Allied Force.
Else hopefully someone who has the game running OK will ‘chip in’
I Did find these posts re RES problems
http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/7142-Forcing-games-to-run-on-a-1024×600-screen (links to something called display changer)
http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/11950-1024-X-768-resolutionEDIT – I should add, I’ve not used any of these progs myself so cannot vouch for them, I only searched and googled. Also, whilst I’m certain they will be OK, as usual always AV check before installing anything and check for OS compatibility etc before installing (i.e. don’t load an XP only program on W7 etc). Sorry if this is teaching you to suck eggs 🙂
EDIT 2 – With a moment to spare, I did a bit of further searching and found this – http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel945gm/sb/CS-021400.htm it lists Falcon 4: Allied force as a worker. Or is that a different 945 chipset?
Same issue – ux380n, XP pro, mobile intel 945 express. – I plug the ux into an external monitor load the game and than switch back to the ux’s display.. it runs fine. Falcon must check monitor settings at some level – registry? and crash the boot. any way to make unsupported monitor modes (scaling) appear in xp as supported?
tooeasy1075, welcome to the forum.
I assume that Display changer, mentioned in one of the links in my previous post doesn’t work then 🙁
I think there must be a way to run it as I’m sure I read somewhere that someone had it running on an NC10. I don’t have the game to test, just found it by searching.
yeah i tried the older version res changer and just tried this updated version. It wont force the mode – however the display adapter allows the resolution and up to 1600-1200 scaling – I run the game windowed at either 1080 or 1600 and the error still arises – its the programs issue. For some reason its checking “supported” monitor modes the unsupported functioning scaling modes dont allow a load. still when i plug in to a crt – have the only panel active the crt – load the game – and than switch back to the ux’s display panel it works fine windowed, scaling.
Weird.
This is one of the places I read its supposed to run – http://www.netbookgamer.com/Netbook-Games/netbook-game-compatibility-list-for-samsung-nc10 Surely they cannot mean you have to carry a spare monitor around with you? 😉
EDIT – this is way beyond me, but I found this – http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/custom-resolutions-on-intel-graphics/ when looking at this http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm (in its forums).
Dunno if either of these may help a more techie type, or if its another dead end.
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