Error 132s and Unsupported Graphics Cards
by Datth | 23/05/2007 03:21:26 Update 2 For those that are affected by this Error 132 (unsupported and supported cards both), you can get around that error by setting your texture quality to 'high'. To do this, go to your World of Warcraft folder and open the WTF folder. Open the config.wtf file in Wordpad, then look for this line: SET baseMip "1" If that exists, change it to a "0". If that doesn't exist, copy and paste this line to the bottom of the file: SET baseMip "0" Save the file and try the game. A low quality texture fix will come in a future patch. Update S3 people and others with a related Error 132 crash - you may want to install the latest motherboard chipset drivers as well as the video card drivers. Development and the QA teams will be trying to reproduce the bug on the S3 UniChrome since it seems to happen most often there and seems to be related enough to other non-related cards. If it can be reproduced, they can work on a solution. They will be using the latest available drivers so you'll want those too to be on the same page. If you need help finding the chipset drivers, check this - http://www.playtool.com/pages/chipsetdrivers/chipset.html S3 Drivers - http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp nVidia Drivers - http://www.nvidia.com/ AMD/ATI Drivers - http://ati.amd.com/ --------------------------------------- Hi all, The majority of the Error 132s that are posted today seem to be caused by the way the game is rendering things. All of the errors that I have looked into are caused by unsupported video cards such as the S3 family. We realize that you have ran World of Warcraft up until this point with little to no issues but now you can't. There isn't much that we can currently do to remedy the issue. If updating the graphics card driver does not help fix the problem, you may need to get a supported graphics card. Please check this link for graphics card that are supported and unsupported - http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow/?id=aww0830p Note that this is regarding a specific Error 132. If this doesn't sound like it applies to you, it isn't the thread you are looking for. You can try posting a new thread or check here - _____Error 132 Information  [ Post edited by Datth ] Technical Support More to the point, I agree with the Dwarf... complaints about the priest can be taken up with the Spirit healer. - Necrovite, Rexxar |
by Datth | 23/05/2007 04:48:15 Those are slots that your computer has for addon cards. If you have trouble, it's best to bring your system (and a printout of the video card list) to a store like CompUSA or BestBuy and have one of the associates help you. |
by Datth | 23/05/2007 06:20:37You shouldn't be playing on an unsupported card anyways. New features that requires an updated driver and DirectX 9 functionality will eventually break them. I just prefer the path of "knowledge is power". If something might affect you in a good way I'll let you know. So do you want me to provide updates as I find them that may pertain to this situation or keep you all in the dark? I don't mind either way. |
| by Datth | 23/05/2007 22:44:17 There's been a lot of conflicting things being posted in this thread. This one is meant for unsupported units only. If you have a card that's supported (Radeon 7500+, GeForce 2+, Intel 855/865+), it doesn't apply to you. Post a thread with system information and we'll send it to the devs to decipher and see what type of fixes we can roll out. You'll also have to view the total number of reported issues. Unsupported cards are hit immediately and without mercy while sparing ATI, nVidia and Intel folks received it. That's why you still see a lot of people in the General forum 'discussing' balances and in-game issues. It's also why there are people flooding the 70 quest zones and why I couldn't get much questing done last night. We can try to fix the supported cards and hope that they might roll up and fix others as a byproduct but there are no promises for unsupported cards. |
by Datth | 23/05/2007 22:53:10
No. Except RAM, the system requirements are the same since the launch of the game. |
| by Datth | 23/05/2007 23:38:43 S3 people and others with a related Error 132 crash - you may want to install the latest motherboard chipset drivers as well as the video card drivers. Development team will be trying to reproduce the bug on the S3 platform since it seems to happen most often there and seems to be related enough to other non-related cards. If it can be reproduced, they can work on a solution If you need help finding the chipset drivers, check this - http://www.playtool.com/pages/chipsetdrivers/chipset.html S3 Drivers - http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp nVidia Drivers - http://www.nvidia.com/ AMD/ATI Drivers - http://ati.amd.com/ |
| by Datth | 24/05/2007 03:17:29 Try opening the World of Warcraft\WTF\config.wtf file in Wordpad and add this line in: SET baseMip "0" Save the file and try the game. |
| by Datth | 24/05/2007 04:34:21 When you open up config.wtf, scan thru it and make sure there's no basemip values already. If you see one, delete it then add SET baseMip "0" |
| by Datth | 24/05/2007 04:55:32 Wordpad filters files in an attempt to make things a bit clean....so you won't open something like a .jpg file by accident if you're just trying to open a text file. Set the file type to all files and it should appear. |
| by Datth | 24/05/2007 07:06:20 I edited the post to include the fix on the first post. A later fix will be out for Radeons and GeForce cards but should affect others. |
by Datth | 24/05/2007 07:24:42
baseMIP 0 forces the game to apply high quality textures to the game, something all supported cards are capable of (but may not be the fastest solution for them). Without knowing what card it is, there's not much you can do about it. Try editing some of the in-game video options to see if you can get it to look correctly. |
by Datth | 24/05/2007 07:40:47
That poster can try to update his motherboard chipset drivers to solve flickering on SLI. Between that, disabling Triple Buffering and Trilinear Filtering, they've been fixing it. I'm not sure why he's in an Error 132 thread for unsupported card instead of making one his own but to each their own. |
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