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-Resolved- Help running original Dawn of War games?

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Fenrakk101

The Steam forums for the Dawn of War franchise are dreadfully dead. Perhaps someone here can help me?

The game when you first run, and at any time you choose after, runs a graphicsconfig.exe to determine your specs. Problem is, even though I have an awesome NVidia graphics card that can run pretty much any other game, the game itself only recognizes my Integrated Graphics card. It's not the worst integrated graphics card, but they give me a drop-down menu with ONLY that card, and don't even let me choose my other graphics card.

what do what do

EDIT: Fixed now thanks to BoGG

12 years ago*

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AndreiHere

i think is no problem,. just start the game and after that change the settings in main menu to ultra.

thing is the first dawn of war has no widescreen support. so either you play on a widescreen with 2 black bars on left and right, either you strech the image.

also go and search on google camera zooom for dawn of war, cause default camera is too close.

ps. when you start game for first time, game wont let you skip intro, and sometimes even when you start game after changing graphic settings.

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Fenrakk101

It's a huge problem because that doesn't work. I was in game wondering why the game didn't look as good as I remembered. Go to options menu, get told I can't increase the settings. Then I realized it was running off of the integrated graphics chip (by rerunning the graphicsconfig).

I need to get the game to recognize my NVidia card, or else it won't run without the integrated card.

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BoGG

If you can't tweak the Graphics settings directly in-game then I guess you could do this..

Force the graphicsconfig.exe to run using the NVidia Card instead of integrated card. I know that my wife's laptop has this option in the NVidia control panel, you can browse directly to an application then define what video card should be the one used for it.

12 years ago
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Fenrakk101

Holy hell, that did it. Thanks for being awesome!

12 years ago
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VitaminEx

It's an old game and it doesn't have good video options, and like AndreiHere said it doesn't offer widescreen.

I bought these games when they first came out and played them for awhile but after not playing them for years I recently decided to play them again (after getting a new PC and using a 36 inch monitor) and I just couldn't get it to look right. Age was not good to DoW 1.

So, I'm not sure if it's a problem with it not recognizing your card but more of a lack of options to begin with.

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Fenrakk101

It was a problem with it not recognizing my card, but that's fixed now. Thanks anyway!

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Maxximo

I have the same problem, but i fixed by the optimus technology, go to the w40k exe file and with the right click in the graphic card choosen, select change the graphic, and then they are gonna open an nvidia windows and you need to find in your files the 40k exe and then put the nvidia graphic as default.

That work for me and for the W40K collection (gold-dark crusade and soulstorm)

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Fenrakk101

Help: I can't change the graphics settings in-game. It says I need to restart for the changes to take effect, I do so, but nothing changes.

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Closed 12 years ago by Fenrakk101.