Brink Crashing Before Main Menu, but after initial load.


(bladedark) #1

Exactly what the title said. I just upgraded my video card to a HD radeon 5450 from a Nvidia card, and now i cant play the game. My other computer cant do open GL but this one supports it but doesn’t even give an error and just crashes. So yea, need halp. Request info and i’ll suppply it as best as possible ect, unless this is common and there is a easy known fix that doesnt really require much more info.

P.s. The game did work before my old card died and i upgraded to this one. :stroggtapir:


(FireWorks) #2

Easiest way …without knowing the exact issue… get another Nvidia card. You find plenty of ATI suckage in this forum:(:frowning: Get a nice nv card and youll be happily brinking again


(Codine) #3

[QUOTE=bladedark;359631]Exactly what the title said. I just upgraded my video card to a HD radeon 5450 from a Nvidia card, and now i cant play the game. My other computer cant do open GL but this one supports it but doesn’t even give an error and just crashes. So yea, need halp. Request info and i’ll suppply it as best as possible ect, unless this is common and there is a easy known fix that doesnt really require much more info.

P.s. The game did work before my old card died and i upgraded to this one. :stroggtapir:[/QUOTE]

ati cards have a lot of problems with this game and the 5450 isnt exactly a powerful card. I have a 5770 and I can’t even run this game.


(bladedark) #4

well the other card that died was from 3 years ago and it worked up until my razer nostromo somehow blew out the fan on it and it fried. I read reports of other people playing the game with this card but its the only thing that changed so idk why its not working for me :confused:


(Crytiqal) #5

ok wth.

You read ALL OVER THIS forum that ATI CARDS suck, and yet what do you do?

you SWITCH from NVIDIA to ATI!

You deserve to be punished. I’m serious.
Why didn’t you just buy NVIDIA?


(bladedark) #6

[QUOTE=Crytiqal;359726]ok wth.

You read ALL OVER THIS forum that ATI CARDS suck, and yet what do you do?

you SWITCH from NVIDIA to ATI!

You deserve to be punished. I’m serious.
Why didn’t you just buy NVIDIA?[/QUOTE]

yes because even before brink came out i spent my days browsing this very forum to see which video cards are the best. I just made my accoutn now is why it says im a new member, and it was either an ATI card or wait a month or so since none of my local stores had any decent nvidia cards. Regardless, i know other people who run with ati cards and id like someone to tell me where to find the info needed to figrue out what happened and fix it.


(Codine) #7

I’ve had no luck with my ati 5770 with brink. I’ve tried countless configs and even older drivers. The older drivers would give me a better frame rate but it still wasn’t playable. At this point I can’t even play the game without the game crashing or locking up. Maybe its a 5xxx issue?

Either way Brink will not work with ati cards and neither side will speak up about this issue.


(FireWorks) #8

I dont think violence will work, so blackmailing ATI wont be a proper step. Sleeping with some developer at ATI might get you further.

Switch to nvidia…

Sorry but it wont become much better :frowning:


(Crispy) #9

“Switch to Nvidia” is not helpful tech support. I will remove any further posts in this thread that are not constructive and issue infractions.

Now, to the issue at hand.

bladedark, please post a DxDiag.


(to_few) #10

Can you tell us what operating system your on.
Did you uninstall the Nvidia drivers before adding the new card + drivers ?
Also search google for DX websetup and run it to rule out that.