Fatal graphics error

**Pickapoo** · March 16, 2007, 12:38 PM

Everytime I try to start the game my screen turns black and then I get the error message;

''A fatal graphics error has occured and the game will now be shut down. This is normally caused by having your game graphics options set to high, please try running the game again and lowering your graphics settings before entering a battle.''

How do I fix this?

**skullman86** · March 16, 2007, 07:10 PM

do what it says

lower your settings.I have had it one or two times and it usually defaults my settings and I have to change them to high again

.I dont know why I get it but its either a safety for your computer when it overheats or it's some random glitch.

**Pickapoo** · March 16, 2007, 07:38 PM

Aye mate, but the prob is that I cannot even start the god damn game

**skullman86** · March 17, 2007, 12:14 AM

Do you have any other stuff running? I had that error once when I started the game then alt tabbed and opened an internet explorer page.I was viewing the page for a while, then I got the error.If that isn't the case then maybe go into the preference. CFG and lower the settings there :hmmm:.

**Pickapoo** · March 17, 2007, 04:24 AM

Nope, I'm totally clean so to say

I got nothing running while I try to start the game. And I got a good computer and new drivers to the graphics card so that could not be the prob.

And what do you mean with CFG? ^^

**tomas3333** · March 17, 2007, 09:02 AM

configuration file for Medieval. Its named medieval2.preference.cfg in your m2 directory

**Pickapoo** · March 18, 2007, 01:20 PM

How do I configurate it?

**tomas3333** · March 18, 2007, 01:25 PM

open in notepad and rewrite atributes

**skullman86** · March 18, 2007, 04:08 PM

go to c: programs/sega/medieval and you'll see a file called

"medieval2.preference"
open it with notepad and go to where it says [video].....probably the last group

Where ever you see "high" change it to "low"...etc

If that works then go and change your settings back when in game but leave one or two of them one setting lower to be safe, if it was on high make it medium.....and so on.Or you could just put it all back and hope you don't get the error again

**Pickapoo** · March 20, 2007, 01:38 PM

Sad enough, I have lowered the settings in the way you told me to. But I still get the error

**comtraya101** · April 30, 2009, 04:21 PM

Same thing is happening to me. I just started playing Kingdoms Brittania campaign until an error message pops up before the game even loads up so I play Crusades for a while and now that's gone two.

I have a quad core i7 and pretty good graphics card and I just updated all the drivers. Also, the autodetect in the game set me at high. How is it that it won't work, now?

**Parori** · December 21, 2013, 09:31 AM

Sorry for Necro, but I thought I could just answer: Chance your screens resolution to smaller. I had this problem and I was using my TV as my screen, I chanced to my original computer screen whic is smaller and it worked