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Over the last few days I have been getting this error when clicking the Path of Exile shortcut from my desktop.

I cannot play this game.

I have been playing this game for quite awhile, in fact i have a lvl 39 shadow (along with some others).

The only change on my system is an uninstall of AVG free/Comodo firewall.

I tried to reinstall directx 11 (win 7 ultimate) and reinstall of nvidia drivers.

nothing seems to help.

Any ideas?

-Krycul

Try this. Run client directly from the POE folder.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/19424

ya tried that actually.

I am running an nvidia gtx670M.

I clicked on client.exe from pathofexile directory. Tried as admin and also forcing nvidia as default graphics card.

Still no result.

I just cant for the life of me think why all of a sudden this is happening. I was playing the game for several weeks just fine prior to this.

/shrug

Hope I can figure it out.

-Krycul

Also i ran packcheck with no errors to report.

Did you update your drivers? If yes, try to roll back them.

Try to delete config file from C:\Users\[User]\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile

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Ekalindorskii wrote:

Did you update your drivers? If yes, try to roll back them.

Try to delete config file from C:\Users\[User]\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile

Interesting ... that seemed to work.
However I only have the intel onboard video processor as an option. I cannot select the nvidia gtx670m.

Wonder what that is about?

Thanks ... at least we are heading in the right direction.

-Krycul

System doesn't see your video card or only the game?

system sees it just fine and so does every other game i currently am playing.

also -- before this error showed up this game recognized it as well.

now it does not.

thanks though ... at least I can get into game now. :D

-krycul

Hmmm ... tried updating graphics drivers and the Nvidia driver installer cannot find compatible hardware.

Uh oh .... this cant be good.

-Krycul

Your welcome.

PS: I think it will recognize your video card after you launch the game and change settings.
If not, you can try to write in "adapter_name=" field in the production_Config.ini your video card name after "=". But, don't forget to copy it first.