Installling UFO on new(er) machine

[Leader Desslok]

Hello, I have a problem. I was recently 'gifted' with a Dell Dimension 8400 tower. I already had UFO: Alien Invasion installed my old Dell Dimension GX270. I'm in the process of migrating my computer stuff over to the new machine and wanted to install UFO. I saw that a newer version was available so I downloaded 2.5.
    I installed it, but when I went to start the game, it aborted. I'm running windows XP Home Edition on the new computer. XP Pro edition on the old. So I uninstalled the game and downloaded the 2.4 version. Again, it aborted when I attempted to start the game. I don't know what the problem is. Any suggestions?

[Leader Desslok]

This is the dialogue from the UFO:AI window...

---- endianness initialization -----
found little endian system

---- filesystem initialization -----
Adding game dir: /usr/local/games/ufoai/base
Adding game dir: ./base
Added packfile ./base/0base.pk3 (15 files)
Added packfile ./base/0maps.pk3 (740 files)
Added packfile ./base/0materials.pk3 (57 files)
Added packfile ./base/0media.pk3 (11 files)
Added packfile ./base/0models.pk3 (2346 files)
Added packfile ./base/0music.pk3 (46 files)
Added packfile ./base/0pics.pk3 (1056 files)
Added packfile ./base/0shaders.pk3 (37 files)
Added packfile ./base/0snd.pk3 (354 files)
Added packfile ./base/0textures.pk3 (1767 files)
Added packfile ./base/0ufos.pk3 (109 files)
Adding game dir: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\UFOAI/2.4/base
using C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\UFOAI/2.4/base for writing
executing filesystem.cfg
executing default.cfg
couldn't execute config.cfg

----- network initialization -------
libcurl/7.25.0 GnuTLS/3.0.17 zlib/1.2.6 libidn/1.24 libssh2/1.4.0 initialized.

------ server initialization -------
added 8 maps to the mapcycle

----- console initialization -------
Console initialized.

------- video initialization -------
SDL version: 1.2.15
I: desktop depth: 32bpp
I: video memory: 0
I: Available resolutions: 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 (4)
I: video driver: windib
I: setting mode -1
I: set multisample buffers to 0
I: set swap control to 0
I: 1024x768 (fullscreen: yes)
I: got 8 bits of stencil
I: got 32 bits of depth buffer
I: got double buffer
I: got 8 bits for red
I: got 8 bits for green
I: got 8 bits for blue
I: got 0 bits for alpha
I: got 1 multisample buffers
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GDI Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.1.0
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
No hardware acceleration detected.
Update your graphic card drivers.
FS_RemoveFile: remove C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\UFOAI/2.4/base/keys.cfg
There are still 1 opened files

Shutdown

[Kemlo]

GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GDI Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.1.0
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
No hardware acceleration detected.
Update your graphic card drivers.

The last quoted line tells you what to do.

[Leader Desslok]

Well, then... I have a problem. I don't know what graphics card the computer is using and apparently it doesn't either. In the hardware manager the video card is shown as unknown with a yellow question mark. And it reports that drivers are not installed. I checked the Dell support site, but there are about 12 or so different drivers to download for various cards. My last option is to open the case and find out what's physically printed on the video card. Big pain in the butt. Odd thing is, that everything else seems to work. Just not the UFO game. Oh well, I may continue to play on my old system.

[evilgrass]

Well, then... I have a problem. I don't know what graphics card the computer is using and apparently it doesn't either. In the hardware manager the video card is shown as unknown with a yellow question mark. And it reports that drivers are not installed. I checked the Dell support site, but there are about 12 or so different drivers to download for various cards. My last option is to open the case and find out what's physically printed on the video card. Big pain in the butt. Odd thing is, that everything else seems to work. Just not the UFO game. Oh well, I may continue to play on my old system.

You could try some hardware identification software. For example, hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/), but there are many others.

[Kemlo]

You could try some hardware identification software. For example, hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/), but there are many others.

Alternatively try GPU-Z.

[Leader Desslok]

You could try some hardware identification software. For example, hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/), but there are many others.


I did that. I found the info I needed. Went to the appropriate web site. Downloaded and installed the drivers. Now not only does the game load properly, but my entire computer screen looks so much better. Thanks a bunch. I'm nominating you guys for 'Demi-God' status.

[Leader Desslok]

UPDATE: I've been playing the game all night. Still 2.4, but...

    The graphics are WAY better on the Dell 8400 than they were on the GX270. I'm seeing imagary that simply wasn't present on the other computer. Animated fountains, flowing water in streams. Lighting effects when the aliens fire their weapons. I never saw any of that on my old system. Even the soldiers look better.

    Installing the drivers for the video card also improved my display for watching videos, so mucho thanks for the help guys. Now if I could figure out the team names problem in my other post.