unable to start game on windows 7 x64 *solved*

[CBMFreak]

I've tried the patched exe but it fails just as the original exe.

The GPU CAPS program reports that the opengl version is 1.1

But the odd thing is that it type n.a. in the GPU window and
types GDI Generic as opengl renderer even after I replaced the
graphics card driver with the newest from HP's website.

I will try to use the newest ati mobility driver instead
(unpatched Catalyst 10.12 mobility)

I just tried running a more demanding 3D game and it was very slow,
so I think that OpenGL is somehow not working on this laptop.

I am just not entirely sure how to fix it.

*** update ***

After completely uninstalling the driver and then installing the
unpatched Catalyst 10.12 mobility, then vdrift works, both the
regular exe and the patched exe.

This is puzzling though, since AMD/ATI graphics chips in HP Pavillion laptops
shouldn't be able to use the AMD/ATI drivers, only the HP drivers, because
HP wants to be the only driver provider for their laptops.

That is the reason I used a patched catalyst 10.10 driver. But apparently the unpatched 10.12 driver works fine.

It is fairly recent that I installed the patched catalyst 10.10 driver, so I was under the impression that it was the latest.

If I use medium graphics settings and don't enable to much then I get around 80 FPS in VDrift in-game. The "dirt smoke" looks very odd though...
Like big white boxes. Usually that is not a good sign.

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Thanks for all your help and feedback.

But I must admit that I feel slightly embarrassed that
I didn't just try the newest catalyst driver right away.

The GPU information program is really great by the way.