Unable to Start Vindictus

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Doomowner wrote on 2011-11-03 21:25

So, I am running a ATI Radeon HD 5450 Video card at the moment, and for some reason I am unable to start vindictus. The hackshield loads, and I am then presented with the opening splash, and an error message I cannot see hidden behind it. I can see it for ~.5 a second when alt-tabbing before the splash covers it, and says something about a video card. I have played this game before, about 9-12 months ago, and it ran fine, no changes in hardware since then. I just installed the latest version from the website, so its not my configurations. Any help?
Excalibuurr wrote on 2011-11-03 22:44

What method have you tried to start Vindictus? Through the web or the executable program itself?
Doomowner wrote on 2011-11-03 22:59

Quote from Excalibuurr;648320:
What method have you tried to start Vindictus? Through the web or the executable program itself?

Through the web, and I managed to read the error message, with the little preview windows 7 gives you. The message is :

Failed to set video mode - resetting to defaults. Game will now restart with new video
settings.

Anyone heard of this error?
Excalibuurr wrote on 2011-11-04 21:13

Well, this has happened on source games such as Half Life 2.
You could try going into your NVIDIA thingy in regedit and delete anything with the Vindictus.exe process, or you could try doing a clean install of your video driver.