New Video Card installed... but game still doesn't work!

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So I just got a new video card for my computer, a GeForce MX 5700 LE, and I wanted to play Vampire Bloodlines. I have the minimum specs for it, and it didn't work with my Intel Integrated Grapics that came with my computer, so I bought a video card to play this (and other stuff). So I installed it and when I go to play it my monitor menu (not from the game, from the monitor settings) comes up and says "VGA NOT SUPPORTED". It's got a few numbers below it too. I don't know what to do!

WORK DAMN IT!
 
Okay I got the game to work! Had to reinstall it. But when I start it up, there's no sound, and when I exit, no sound comes out of my computer anymore. So I restart my computer and have sound back, but whenever I start up the game, no sound.

Does that mean I need a SOUND card too?

It never ends!
 
This may sound extremely stupid, but make sure you disabled your old Video Card, if you are only using one monitor. It may be that it finds a foreign video card and gives ya video, but expects it to give it sound too, cause your onboard stuff may have worked crazy like that. Disable your old videocard and give it a whirl, and yes update your drivers too. Then if that doesn't work reinstall the game.
 
I'll tell you it is this kind of stuff that led me to stop playing computer games altogether.

4 years ago I switched exclusively to console games (can you say GTA3 on PS2) after I spent several days (a few hours each day) trying to get Diablo 2 to run on my machine.
 
[quote name='NoRain']This may sound extremely stupid, but make sure you disabled your old Video Card, if you are only using one monitor. It may be that it finds a foreign video card and gives ya video, but expects it to give it sound too, cause your onboard stuff may have worked crazy like that. Disable your old videocard and give it a whirl, and yes update your drivers too. Then if that doesn't work reinstall the game.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I did that. After reinstalling and fixing my sound by trial and error, I FINALLY got it to work. The game is awesome, but terrible load times whenever you go out into the city.


[quote name='schultzed']I'll tell you it is this kind of stuff that led me to stop playing computer games altogether.

4 years ago I switched exclusively to console games (can you say GTA3 on PS2) after I spent several days (a few hours each day) trying to get Diablo 2 to run on my machine.[/QUOTE]

I know how you feel, this is my first gaming computer and it's happened to me many times already. But I always find a way to work around it, kind of feels like an adventure of sorts. A techy, mind-boggling, migraine-giving, keyboard-punching adventure.

Thanks for the help, guys!
 
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