Any way to bypass video card check?

**TheShaft** · 17-09-2011, 17:31

Originally Posted by jangoolie

My favorite part of this thread is that even after posting twice he still hasn't actually posted what graphics card or driver/OS he is using.

Windows 7 SP1 x64

I was using the latest available video driver directly from intel. Then I installed a modded one. None of then seemed to solve this issue.

Originally Posted by Glass

It's an imbedded chipset, so if it's a laptop he can't.

Yeah, it's a notebook. I own a decent desktop, but would be nice to get the game working on this notebook too.

Originally Posted by mordredp

I think the only way to bypass that would be spoofing the vendor id and device id of your card [...] they don't work with diablo unfortunately, since they need to be fed an exe and diablo has a launcher.

If anyone wants to look further into this, you're welcome. I hate that I can run SC2 fine and I can't run this beta.

Unfortunately this does not work, as you said. I tested it previously.

Changing any of the values in "D3Prefs" does not work, either.

**Rancors** · 17-09-2011, 18:22

Don't think it's possible then. the engine underperforms to support most recent games.

**mordredp** · 17-09-2011, 18:29

It's possible. I had the same error and by doing what I did I can finally watch that marvelous login screen :P

**demonslayers** · 17-09-2011, 18:35

i have no problems with my graphics card i run ATI Mobility radeon 3650 HD

**TheShaft** · 17-09-2011, 18:41

Originally Posted by mordredp

It's possible. I had the same error and by doing what I did I can finally watch that marvelous login screen :P

Can you please elaborate on what exactly you did?

**mordredp** · 17-09-2011, 20:32

Documents folder, Diablo III folder, open D3Prefs.txt.

Search for PCIVendor and PCIDevice and substitute the two lines with those:

PCIVendor "4098"
PCIDevice "26393"

Save and start the game. It'll run.

**TheShaft** · 17-09-2011, 21:06

Damn. Does not work.

**Mewy** · 17-09-2011, 21:12

Originally Posted by demonslayers

i have no problems with my graphics card i run ATI Mobility radeon 3650 HD

Ah very good to hear, I have this one in my laptop. It plays starcraft 2 just fine

**mordredp** · 17-09-2011, 21:16

Originally Posted by TheShaft

Damn. Does not work.

I'm sorry.. That's strange, I had the same error and it worked for me.

**Glass** · 17-09-2011, 21:35

Originally Posted by Mewy

Ah very good to hear, I have this one in my laptop. It plays starcraft 2 just fine

Anything ATI/AMD or NVidia (that's not ancient) should definitely work. It's just Intel's chips that are terrible.

Also, TheShaft, even if you manage to bypass the check the game will probably still not work. There's a reason that hardware check is stopping it from running.

I remember bypassing the check on Neverwinter Nights 2 to get it to run on my laptop that used an Intel chipset, and I was a little bit annoyed that I had wasted so much time to figuring out how to do it only to get a game that launched but was unplayable (screen tearing, models not displaying, about 2 FPS average).