Luke Knowles Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Hey there I have just got the new Leadwerks indie edition 3.1 and every time I try to run it I get a error saying this "Failed to initialize graphics. Your graphics hardware may not be supported." My computer is an Alienware M14x with windows 8 running a Intel HD Graphics 4000 and an Nvidia Geforce GT 650M. I believe Leadwerks may be using the Intel HD Graphics card as the default, is there anyway to change this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Knowles Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 Hello everyone, who ever is having the same problem please follow these steps: 1)Right click on desktop and choose "NVIDIA Control Settings" 2)Look at left panel,under 3D Settings --> Manage 3D settings now you have 2 tabs GLOBAL SETTINGS and PROGRAM SETTINGS. Under GLOBAL SETTINGS tab under "Preferred graphics processor" choose "High Performance NVIDIA processor". Don't change any other details on that tab. Now,under PROGRAM SETTINGS tab click the button ADD which will ask you to browse the program you want.Browse it to wherever your game is installed and find the ".exe" file. Example,c:\program files\NeedForSpeed\nfs.exe choose the ".exe" file and click OK,the under "select the preferred graphics processor for this program" choose "High performance NVIDIA processor". Click OK(if there is any) to save the changes and you're done. Next time when you open your game it will run by NVIDIA card. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meteorstorm Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Does anybody know how to make this work for an Ati setup? I have an HD 6550 and an HD 4250. This is on an HP Pavillion DV7 laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xAbraKaZebra Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 This might be a really, really stupid question. But do you need an Nvidia card to run this program? I just saw it on steam and have become really intrigued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybriduff Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I have an Nvidia GTX 260 graphics card. All my drivers are updated. I am having the exact same problem. I find it hard to believe that I can't run a game engine with my current setup. Do I have to buy a new graphics card just to run this??? Please help, or else i'm out a 100 dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandrewk Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I have an Nvidia GTX 260 graphics card. All my drivers are updated. I am having the exact same problem. I find it hard to believe that I can't run a game engine with my current setup. Do I have to buy a new graphics card just to run this??? Please help, or else i'm out a 100 dollars. According to nvidia it only supports OpenGL up to version 2.1. You need an OpenGL 4.x compatible graphics card to run the engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Please do not hijack bug report topics. The OP found a fix for his problem, and the editor has also been updated to default to discrete graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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