Bug Pixel Format not Accelerated

[Khius]

My laptop does not work with starmade for the reason of a bug, but when i use another hard drive the error comes up Pixel Format not Accelerated full error is org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel Format not Accelerated

 

[kupu]

This is possibly a driver issue when using OpenGL. Have you updated your graphics driver recently?

It could also be because it's an old / incompatible graphics chip. Could you tell us what it is?

 

[Khius]

the graphic drivers are all up to date and everything however its a windows 8 i am uncertain whether or not this could contribute to the problem

 

[DukeofRealms]

Have you recently updated to Windows 8.1?

Also what graphics card do you have?

 

[Khius]

yes its windows 8.1 graphics card is ATI Radeon HD 4770 its also 64 bit

 

[DukeofRealms]

Have you updated through the AMD Catalyst? http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows 8 - 64

I have experienced drivers not working correctly after I updated to Windows 8.1 (as well as the pixel format not accelerated error), there were driver updates to fix the issues.

 

[Khius]

do i download the apu or gpu windows 8 64 b driver

 

[DukeofRealms]

I believe AMD updates drivers through the Catalyst, it should be automatic. However I could be wrong as I have never used it myself.

 

[Khius]

it doesnt seem to be working thanx anyway i will have to wait for an amd update

 

[kupu]

I've been doing some reading on your card / drivers, apparently the card is now considered legacy and unsupported.
It's likely a new 64bit driver for windows 8.1 won't be released.

Rolling back to a earlier version of windows seems to be the most likely fix for this.

 

[Kaelani Revyruun]

Any way *other* than a downgrade to make it work, kupu? Cos I just got a new laptop, and I've got this issue :/

 

[Reilly Reese]

So... My computer had a nervous breakdown and I had to switch out the graphics card from an R9 270x to a R9 290. Somehow the WEAKER card had a driver that worked with 8.1 and Starmade but the newer stronger card doesn't?

Any ideas?

 

[SmilingDemon]

upload the grafcisinfo.txt file please ... i would assume if it is the AMD drivers it is because of an install problem of the AMD software .. so maybe uninstall them, reboot and reinstall the latest version again

 

[Reilly Reese]

So I go get Catalyst and when I try to update my drivers it BSODs

 

[SmilingDemon]

You did upgrade from 270x to 290 .. sure your PSU is handling that well ?

 

[Reilly Reese]

You did upgrade from 270x to 290 .. sure your PSU is handling that well ?

If it didn't wouldn't my computer not work at all?

 

[Etrix06]

So I just Updated from Windows 8 to 10 and now I'm getting The Pixel Format not Accelerated. I am not great with computers so if someone could help me. Please Explain Like I'm Five.

 

[AndyP]

Read this:
Reference installation
This should fix it, as its most likely caused by a broken texture download, or outdated drivers.

In this case it should be the first one, if not, the logs will reveal the exact error. =)

- Andy

 

[Edymnion]

I had this problem after a complete reinstall of the OS.

Turns out the cause was I forgot to install the drivers for my video card, and the system was resorting to using the basic windows video drivers which wouldn't handle it.

Soon as I installed the real drivers, it worked fine.

 

[TheSauceisTheBoss]

im having hisisue awell, i have windows 10, i dont know if that would affect it but ireally need help