zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Hello, I just recently purchased Leadwerks and was super excited to use it, however upon initial launch, the error of: Leadwerks Editor Failed to initialize graphics. Please ensure your graphics hardware is compatible and install new graphics drivers. I have attempted to update all drivers and there has been no change. I'm fairly certain my graphics card should be able to run it and have gotten increasingly frustrated over the last day of trying to make this program run/ figure out what I need to download to make it run. My computer specs are: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1 Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz Graphics 1: Radeon ™ HD 6770M Graphics 2: Intel® HD Graphics Family I've scoured the forums, but each solution doesn't pan out. Help me Obi'Wan you're my only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerRidda Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Leadwerks is probably starting on that Intel graphics potato instead of your Radeon. You probably need to use whatever tools AMD offers to force the use of your proper card for certain apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Leadwerks is probably starting on that Intel graphics potato instead of your Radeon. You probably need to use whatever tools AMD offers to force the use of your proper card for certain apps. Thought about this too. Attempted with no luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerRidda Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Let's at least try to narrow it down to that. Get into your bios and completely disable the Intel GPU, if it doesn't work then there is different issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Let's at least try to narrow it down to that. Get into your bios and completely disable the Intel GPU, if it doesn't work then there is different issue. Just tested. No luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerRidda Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Obligatory "Is the AMD driver up to date?" Also are you using the beta 14.11.2? Because that has caused problems for almost everybody so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 My Windows system check on it says yes. Last night I ran the auto updater from AMD to double check and it downloaded a file 273 MB in size which I thought was the newest driver, but it may have been the beta. I performed a system restore because that driver messed with my screen resolution in a way that I couldn't fix it. I'm manually downloading AMD Mobility Radeon™ Driver 14.9 now. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/mobile?os=Windows%207%20-%2064 I'll see if that fixes it and update you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 It worked once. The update has messed with my screen resolution and upon a restart the driver no longer worked. I performed a system restore again and now no longer have my other restore points. Redownloaded the driver only to have it mess with screen resolution again and it is providing me with the same error. At this point I am beyond frustrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 It worked once. The update has messed with my screen resolution and upon a restart the driver no longer worked. I performed a system restore again and now no longer have my other restore points. Redownloaded the driver only to have it mess with screen resolution again and it is providing me with the same error. At this point I am beyond frustrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 You can find out which graphics chip is running by looking at the program log located at "USER\Documents\Leadwerks\Leadwerks.log". AMD / Intel combos require you to manually set the program to use the AMD card: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/8120-graphics-drivers/ Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillalover Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 Attempted, didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouGroove Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Is your computer a laptop with one video output only, or a desktop with two video outputs (integrated intel motherboard and Radeon) ? 1) If it's desktop installing Radeon drivers will automatically switch to Radeon card display output. 2) Is it's desktop you'll have to install Catalyst package and change manually the graphic card used by Leadwerks (select performance on the menu) Google it to find examples : Quote Stop toying and make games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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