Re: Dead Space 2 "Your graphic card does not meet minimum requirements"

Hardware details:

i5 M430 @2.27 GHz

Radeon 5870 

4 GB RAM

Full spec here: http://www.msi.com/product/nb/gx740.html#hero-specification

I tried to add specific custom profiles at Catalyst CC, I also tried to use windows campatibility, admin rights. I installed Radeon Pro and tried to force different refresh rates (because as far as I know it's screen refresh problem) and many many other things, softwares, settings.txt changes etc. Funny thing is that no one knows how to solve it. I just wanna play Dead Space 2, even if I have no external monitor close to me :P

Your CPU has an Intel HD Graphics 3000 IGP on board and the game may be trying to use that rather than your Radeon 5870.

If you go to the Catalyst Control Panel and then 3D Gaming you can add Dead Space 2 to specify that the 5870 be used instead of the Intel IGP.

Thank You for answer. I already created Dead Space 2 profile in CCC but there's no option to choose between graphics. There are only Anti Aliasing, Texture Filtering, Frame Rate Control and Tesselation options to change. It's kinda annoying that there's no real "advanced" properties. Although it might be a good lead.

Any ideas how to switch between graphics? I can't find any info about that. Besides I forgot to mention that I don't see Intel HD graphic card in the Device Menager. This makes me think that my Radeon 5870 should be a primary GPU. It's a hard case to solve 😉

Ok, so I spent a lot of time searching how to switch graphics. Unfortunately there is no option to do this in GX740 (I found many oppinions about that, for example here https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=154255.0   OR  here (in polish language): https://forum-pl.msi.com/index.php?topic=5466.0. That would explain why I have no Intel HD graphic in device manager. Still I have few options to check.

EDIT: Dead Space 2 on Intel HD 3000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ivMgjMGSTQ

It's fourth day of searching the answer 🙂 And I think there is no option to do that without connecting external monitor. I tried many other options like registry keys changes, installed VirtualBox with Win Xp and tried to run the game, installed older graphic card drivers, installed PowerStrip and tried to overclock screen (never do that ! I almost destroyed screen) .etc. I think that game is asking Catalyst drivers about refresh rate and there's no chance to change that.

Is there any possibility that You, Dear EA, will release some patch for that? It's just DeadSpace2.exe and DeadSpace.exe files fault, I checked it. Firstly game is accesing activationx86.dll file and then (I assume) it "connects" with driver info files to achieve the refreshment rate and if it's lower than Dead Space 1 & 2 primary (60hz), game is not allowed to start. I'll be really grateful for answer.

Can you generate a Dxdiag report and upload it to hastebin and then post the link to that here please? This will give us all the info we may need like driver versions and your exact hardware specifications.

http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

Yes off course. I don't know how I could forget about that. Here's the link for full DX Diag: http://pastebin.com/bZ9XetyW. Also pls check Your inbox, I'll be grateful for answer.

EDIT: Dont know why but I can't enter the link directly. Please just copy the link and paste into the browser, then everything is ok.

@MrFeiLong 

Can you do the same but on hastebin please? TY.

 @EA_Barry:

I thought You meant pastebin, never heard of hastebin 🙂 Sorry for my mistake and here You go: http://hastebin.com/gujanikika.tex

@EA_Barry: have You found something weird or helpfull in my DxDiag?

@MrFeiLong 

Yes, I have actually. Your 5870 GPU is fine for this game.

Having said that, there may be an issue with your Operating System. Can I ask that you goto the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/validate

Then click on the Validate link at the top. Make sure that you visit the site while in Internet Explorer, otherwise it will ask you do download a small program onto your computer in order to validate.

Ok but I will able to do that in two days because I have no laptop with me at the moment. When I'll do that I'll post a results.

Honestly I doubt that it could be validate problem becaue I have original Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I'm sure it's already validated. But I'll do that once again.

@EA_Barry:

Finally at home. I did exactly what You asked me for but with no result. Once again I "activated" my Windows OS, this time via IE. Additionally I reinstalled game but got the same error: "You graphic card.....".

Please tell me how OS activating could help with that? Did You have some similar situations where this was helpful?

Still no answer?