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When I try to execute "The Dark Mod" it just gives me an error message that says "The Dark Mod has found a problem and needs to be closed" or something like that. I tried downloading it from the website and from a torrent but neither of them worked. I also disabled the Catalyst AI but it didn't work either.

 

These are my specs:

 

OS - Windows XP Professional

CPU - Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHZ

GPU - ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

RAM - 3 GB

 

And yes, my Graphics Card Driver is up to date.

 

Any help would be apreciated!

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Are you getting a small window with a blue background and a bunch of text in it? Any types of errors that might be listed would really help. There is nothing at all to go on from what you've been able to tell us. We're shooting in the dark here.

 

So you're saying that the mod is installed in c:\darkmod or a similar drive letter, right? Is there any other information appearing that might give us a better idea of what is happening?

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Are you getting a small window with a blue background and a bunch of text in it? Any types of errors that might be listed would really help. There is nothing at all to go on from what you've been able to tell us. We're shooting in the dark here.

 

So you're saying that the mod is installed in c:\darkmod or a similar drive letter, right? Is there any other information appearing that might give us a better idea of what is happening?

 

Unfortunately no.

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That GPU is old and AMD has stopped supporting it, so your driver is really not "updated" ;)

 

But TDM should work has idtech 4 was made for even older cards, but this unfortunately sounds like a driver problem, one thing that worked for me on some OpenGL games (Doom3 BFG) was to put a old atioglxx.dll AMD driver directly on the game directory, try this is the one i'm using on BFG.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/60f0iisdpgsp9w1/atioglxx.dll

 

Don't know if it will work on TDM or your card has mine is more recent, but try none the less.

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I've got an old machine with a Radeon x1600 that runs TDM... (like crap)

 

It runs without crashing though so your card isn't missing any critical features that the game requires.

 

BTW they dropped driver support for that generation of video card ages ago. No new drivrs for it have been made in years.

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When I try to execute "The Dark Mod" it just gives me an error message that says "The Dark Mod has found a problem and needs to be closed"

 

When I've dealt with other games on XP that throw up this error it was because of one of the C++ redistributable (2005) packages needing completely uninstalled and then reinstalled.

 

TDM doesn't require these libraries that I'm aware of from the install faq, does it?

 

In any case, I'd make sure your DX9 is updated and make sure your video drivers are updated which you have said they were.

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