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Curse the Spooge!

PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:25 pm
by Lochaber Axe
ERROR:
Spooge Driver not found. Verify that DirectX is properly installed.

This continues to pop up when i try to load up Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War - Winter Assault. Is there a way to fix it without buying a new card?

EDIT: I really didn't know where to put this, since it both involves a game and technical issues. oh and i have tried to uninstall and reinstall the game, so that didn't work.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:03 am
by ShiroiHikari
...Do I want to know what "spooge" is?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:00 pm
by Link Antilles
I found this on Dawn of War's forum....

Symptoms: Game won't start, error message stating that "spooge driver not found, verify that directX is installed" is displayed.

Problem: Your graphics card is not being initialized correctly by the game.

Possible solutions:
Please try the following three things.

1. Make sure that your card can actually run Dawn of War. Here's an (incomplete) list:

Cards that will run Dawn of War
-ATI Radeon 8500 and above
-Nvidia Geforce 2 and above

Cards that will not run Dawn of War
-Intel integrated graphics chips
-S3 chip family of integrated cards
-Matrox Parhelia family

Note that there are a few exceptions.
Remember, you need a card that is Hardware T&L capable.


2. Update your video card drivers. This is the number one most common fix for this problem. The latest versions of the video drivers can be downloaded here (http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html) for ATI cards and here (http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp) for nvidia.

3. Check if your mainboard chipset drivers are installed and up to date. We've seen quite a few cards running in PCI mode due to the chipset drivers not being installed or totally out of date. This really slows your cards down.


That's reminds me... I still need to pick up Winter Assault.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:46 pm
by Slater
ShiroiHikari wrote:...Do I want to know what "spooge" is?

uhr... o.O

Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but... isn't spooge like... y'know, something really dirty? Or am I just more computer illeterate than I should be?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:47 pm
by ShiroiHikari
frwl wrote:uhr... o.O

Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but... isn't spooge like... y'know, something really dirty? Or am I just more computer illeterate than I should be?


I was wondering the same thing...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:32 am
by Azier the Swordsman
Considering spooge is a slang term for.... uh....

...........

You will forgive me for completely misunderstanding the title of this thread. o_O

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:51 am
by Kaligraphic
Spooge is a common slang term for manjuice.

And Lochaber Axe, update your video drivers.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:38 pm
by Slater
lol yeah...

So uh... what does it really mean in computer terms?