No suitable graphics card found

[Delvan]

On my laptop, I am no longer able to launch the game. I generally play on my desktop, last played on my laptop in 50.1. Today I updated to the newest version, and get the below error message when I attempt to start the game.

I reverted to the previous version, and experienced the same error.

My best guess on the source of this bug is that the last time I played, I had a second monitor attached, and was using the game on that monitor. Now I am overseas with no extra display devices. Perhaps the game doesn't check whether the display it last used is no longer present on the system? I'm still using the same video cards (ATI Mobility RAdeon HD 3870 x2) and haven't updated the drivers for them during the interim, desktop isn't locked, nothing running in fullscreen, not using Remote Desktop, not trying to run the game as a service, hardware acceleration on.

What I expected to happen:,
The game to launch on the same (and only) display that the launcher window was present on
What actually happened:
Error window, see above.

Steps to reproduce:
If my guess is right (I can't confirm this will reproduce the issue):
1) Play on a multi-monitor machine, with the game running on the secondary display device
2) Save, exit, then remove the extra displays from the system
3) Start launcher and attempt to launch the game

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[nilllzz]

This is not a bug, since it is working correctly: It cannot detect a suitable graphics card.
The thing here is that this is not something I've programmed: this is a DirectX error, meaning XNA won't work either.

You need to search for yourself for your graphics card what might've caused this.

 

[Delvan]

That the message is being generated when its claims are clearly incorrect (as I said, the graphics device it is complaining about now was perfectly acceptable for it a week ago and no changes have been made to drivers or DirectX in the interim, just a second monitor is no longer plugged in) seems to me to properly fit the definition of a bug, though I certainly understand the stance that it is not your responsibility to address since it is from a library you are using rather than one you have developed yourself.

The way for end users like myself to correct this bug (claiming no suitable device for XNA Reach when one is in actually present and available) when it occurs in other games is with the -forcegraphics command line option. However, I cannot call pokemon.exe directly on the command line or via a shortcut with modified target as it demands it be started via the launcher, and there's not an option in the launcher to add command line parameters for when it starts the game. Is there a way I've overlooked to pass command line parameters to the game? If not, will there be one in a future version, or am I SOL?

 

[nilllzz]

That the message is being generated when its claims are clearly incorrect (as I said, the graphics device it is complaining about now was perfectly acceptable for it a week ago and no changes have been made to drivers or DirectX in the interim, just a second monitor is no longer plugged in) seems to me to properly fit the definition of a bug, though I certainly understand the stance that it is not your responsibility to address since it is from a library you are using rather than one you have developed yourself.

The way for end users like myself to correct this bug (claiming no suitable device for XNA Reach when one is in actually present and available) when it occurs in other games is with the -forcegraphics command line option. However, I cannot call pokemon.exe directly on the command line or via a shortcut with modified target as it demands it be started via the launcher, and there's not an option in the launcher to add command line parameters for when it starts the game. Is there a way I've overlooked to pass command line parameters to the game? If not, will there be one in a future version, or am I SOL?

There's no current way to launch the game with additional command line arguments, but I will see that I can implement an option to the launcher that will add the -forcegraphics parameter.

 

[nilllzz]

This will be included in the "Settings"-pane in the next release of the Launcher that will come with the next version of the game.