Sadie

That's the ticket! Yay! Thank you so much Captain Fabulous! That fixed the issue for my Intel HD 4000! I'm home! Since you seem to know your way around this issue... do you know why the Homecoming servers may be needing this and the other Rebirth etc didn't? I assume that means they're running slightly different code bases already?

I rebuilt my shim to be sure it was grabbing homecoming.exe... yet I still am not working. (Mines' the 4000 driver rather than the 3000) I see a couple mentions of score.exe yet I don't seem to have anything named score in my COH game folder... am I missing something? Errr... nervermind, seems like score.exe isn't a thing anymore.

Johnable, which driver are you using?

Hey all! The other night, I downloaded the game. I had gotten the "old driver" notification but it was closable and everything went fine once I used the alt-enter to get from fullscreen (which had a wrong resolution hiccup) into windowed mode. I made a character, and zoned into the tutorial all without issue. (I was having trouble interacting with the first NPC but I blamed that on user error as I couldn't get him to chat.) I logged out there because it was bedtime. Then, the next day (with no new files downloading), I hit play in Tequila... got the old driver notification... and got in again. However, it kept trying to send me through the new character creator. I finally backed up and tried to get it to go to a server (which only had one showing and was "unnamed" or something similar) and at this point, the game locked up hard. Then I restarted everything, got the old driver warning and THEN got an OPENGL notification for my video card... and it won't load any further. I've tried running Tequila as administrator and Tequila and the cityofheroes and homecoming files in compatibility for Windows 7. No luck. I went through the steps in the tutorial to make a driver shim and installed it. Still no luck. So, I've done all that, and I'm getting no futher. As shown in the screenshot above, I'm on the Intel HD 4000 driver AND it's an older one. I can't use the newer one with this particular laptop as it ruins conflicts and leaves the screen black. So I'm stuck on the version I'm on... one that successfully loaded the game the first day but now won't! What do I try next? Help, please? Updates: 1) -ignoreBadDrivers did not help 2) Game loads and plays fine on non-homecoming servers (Rebirth, etc)

To find my Windows 10 version number, I had to go System -> Settings -> About Similar to this guide (which I used) but yet not even an exact match to it. https://www.howtogeek.com/236195/how-to-find-out-which-build-and-version-of-windows-10-you-have/