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The first error was 97 – which related to Java … installed the latest version, then I got 87 as the error message … this related to the ATI registry key … goggled this and found the following:
For whatever reason, the AMD Catalyst Drivers for Windows 8 Consumer Preview are broken when it comes to 64-bit OpenGL there missing a registry entry critical to its functionality. Specifically, whenever an application (like Minecraft using Java 64-bit) requests OpenGL access, AMDs atig6pxx.dll kicks in. It then peeks inside HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}000 and loads the OpenGL component as specified by OpenGLVendorName (64-bit) or OpenGLVendorNameWow (32-bit).
While the bits are there, the 64-bit registry entry is missing completely
Just save the following as a .reg file and run it no need to restart.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}000]
“OpenGLVendorName”=hex(7):61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,36,00,61,00,78,00,78,00,2e,\
00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00,61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,36,00,61,00,78,00,78,00,\
2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00,00,00Copy the bold text portion from above, save as a file on the desktop (ie. ati_fix.reg) and then double click it. Answer yest to merging the text and then the game runs.
Why aren’t these placed as bulletins on the forum?
It is found under the Help Menu > System Information … my bad for calling it an applet (although technically correct).
It was able to give me Steam’s version of the truth and from there I was able to get a better driver to support my video.
The wife played for just over an hour getting used the interface … great graphics and looks like great gameplay.
I have found the issue, so stand down the dogs of war …… although the video card reported as being an ATI Radeon HD3850 card,
When I ran the applet as explained above, Steam came gave it back as a HD3800. I googled this driver and found one that was dated very recent, I downloaded it …. run the install and although it gave a WIN 8.1 BSOD, after the driver had installed and was doing the Catalyst Control Centre install, I was able to run the game. Great graphics and now the wife is happily playing.
Although the support (or so called, support) sux, we have it running.
Bottom line is, even though Windows reports it as an xxxx version of the video card, run the Steam system applet and see what it comes back with.
We (as customers) should’nt have to pull our hair out to get it working, so maybe the ‘support team’ should at least respond and give some advice.
/rant over/
Cannot wait to post positive results from the gameplay.
Dated
