doom 3 :ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the neces

hi! i just bought doom 3 and i keep getting this message when i want to play.
i tried to download both ati radeon and nvidia geforce on the official sites but it s still not working. As i m quite a neophyte in the computer world i don t even know hot to find out what my video card is... i m running under XP and i guess the only problem is this
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features
Any help would be grealtly appreciated!
thanks

quote from another post by gunslinger

Right click 'My Computer'
Choose 'Properties"
Click the 'Hardware' Tab
Click the 'Device Manager' Button
Expand the group labeled 'Display Adapters'

Your video adapter will be listed there. Let us know what it is.

ok my display adapter is NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT (Microsoft Corporation)
Thank you!

You're video card is not supported by Doom 3. Buy a new video card.

The NVIDIA Vanta™ is a low-cost, 128-bit TwiN Texel, highly integrated 3D graphics processor, designed specifically for value-conscious users. Leveraging the NVIDIA TNT architecture, NVIDIA Vanta delivers breakthrough 3D and industry-leading 2D graphics performance, making it ideal for today's basic desktop PC. The NVIDIA Vanta comes in 4-16MB configurations.

The combination of reliability, compatibility, performance, and quality—at a low cost—has made NVIDIA Vanta the product of choice for leading OEMs and system integrators.

The minimum system requirements for Doom 3:
- 1.5 GHz processor (Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon)
- 384 MB (megabytes) of memory (RAM)
- 64 MB video card (by ATI or nVIDIA)
- 2 GB (gigabytes) of empty hard drive space

The recommended system requirements from PC Gamer magazine:
- 2.0 GHz (or better) P4 or Athlon processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- ATI Radeon 9800 video card
- 5-channel sound card and speakers

The following video cards are supported by Doom 3:
- nVIDIA Geforce 4 MX (the bare minimum)
- nVIDIA Geforce 3
- nVIDIA Geforce 4
- nVIDIA Geforce FX (and higher)
- ATI Radeon 8500s, 9000s and higher

Cheers!

thanks! i ll do that

I too am getting this error, but it started after I installed the new ATI drivers... I've tried rolling back the drivers, that doesn't work either... By the way, my vid card is a Radeon 9700 Pro, and before installing the new drivers, my game worked. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated.

oh yea, by the way, this is the error I'm getting...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1772 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE
768 MB System Memory
128 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: terry.+s
IP: 192.168.0.100
doom using MMX & SSE for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Doom 3/base
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
4966 strings read from strings/english.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
execing DoomConfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
4966 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (800x600)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...attempting to use stereo
...PIXELFORMAT 7 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found
X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features
********************
Error during initialization
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL

It looks like a problem with your OpenGL. Try reinstalling it. Instructions can be found here. Let us know how it goes!

Cheers!

I have the same problem which is desribe above. I played domm3 with an old Geforce 64 mb card, but I recently bought a new Asus V9750. But when I try to play the game now I get the error message:
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.

How can I reinstall Open GL? I´ve downloade the latest drivers from Nvidia so I can´t understand this!

Please somebody help!!

follow the link Bekzor posted above to the opengl site on installing and reinstalling opengl

I am having this problem too. My video card is a 3D RAGE IIC AGP. Can anyone tell me if I can get doom 3 running with that card or will I need a new card?

djblaze, you will most definitely need a new video card, that one is ancient. What are your other system specs?

djblaze, you will most definitely need a new video card, that one is ancient. What are your other system specs?

Thanks, the rest of my system meets the requirments as far as I know.

I definately have got 384Mb RAM.

I use windows XP.

direct x 9.0b is included. So I just need a new video card
o ATI® Radeon 8500
o ATI® Radeon 9000
o ATI® Radeon 9200
o ATI® Radeon 9500
o ATI® Radeon 9600
o ATI® Radeon 9700
o ATI® Radeon 9800
o All Nvidia® GeForce 3/Ti series
o All Nvidia® GeForce 4MX series
o All Nvidia® GeForce 4/Ti series
o All Nvidia® GeForce FX series
or o Nvidia® GeForce 6800 series

I will try and pick one up sometime.

Yeah well check out this guy who made it run on a voodoo II http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1462