directx 12

[x6toxicvenom9x]

"Failed to initialize DirectX 12, Graphics drivers may require an update, or graphics adapter may not be supported."
This is what i get after 70 dollars and 2.5 hours later download. I have an AMD Radeon HD 6900 series graphics card. and a pretty stacked tower. went through the basic things i saw on youtube that i trusted. help!!!

[Psyringe]

Which Windows version is running on that PC?

[x6toxicvenom9x]

windows 10

[Maverick81PL]

Originally posted by x6toxicvenom9x:

"Failed to initialize DirectX 12, Graphics drivers may require an update, or graphics adapter may not be supported."
This is what i get after 70 dollars and 2.5 hours later download. I have an AMD Radeon HD 6900 series graphics card. and a pretty stacked tower. went through the basic things i saw on youtube that i trusted. help!!!

Another one...

Please post your spec and dxdiag report and maybe somone will help you...

[Psyringe]

Hmm, should definitely work. Is your graphics driver up to date? What are the "basic things" that you saw on youtube and went through?

EDIT: Sorry, I see I confused two graphics cards that have almost the same name.

[margalus]

at the top of Steam click on Help and then System Information. Copy all of the resulting text and paste it here.

[x6toxicvenom9x]

yes all up to date. i did all updates on drivers. software. lowered graphic demands in other places and minimized thins running. restarted the computer. checked for game updates went back to old driver version. and reinstalled the driver.

[x6toxicvenom9x]

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: To be filled by O.E.M.
Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x15
CPU Model: 0x1
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3110 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Unsupported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll
Driver Version: 15.201.1151.1008
DirectX Driver Version: 8.17.10.1404
Driver Date: 11 4 2015
OpenGL Version: 3.2
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x6719
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.87" x 11.81" (23.98" diag)
53.0cm x 30.0cm (60.9cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: -2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: AMD HDMI Output (AMD High Defin

Memory:
RAM: 16329 MB

[margalus]

You are using 8 year old gpu drivers....

[x6toxicvenom9x]

Originally posted by margalus:

You are using 8 year old gpu drivers....

up date.? or have to buy a new gpu

[margalus]

Just update the drivers.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-3-1-whql-download.html

[Master Rick 01]

The game say Direct X 11, not X 12... But it also has texture problems with Nvidia Geforce graphics drive... And I don't know why i can't install the most recent drive version... but when i can, maybe my bugs with textures can be fixed. And I hope if you install the Direct X 11 you can play with no issues.

[Blacksmith77K]

Originally posted by x6toxicvenom9x:

Originally posted by margalus:

You are using 8 year old gpu drivers....

up date.? or have to buy a new gpu

Your GPU is a DX11 GPU with 2GB VRAM. IMPOSSIBLE to play Hogwarts Legacy!

Additional your CPU is way to eak to handle Hogwarts Legacy.

[x6toxicvenom9x]

thank you all for your support. video card shopping en rout

[margalus]

This is another really good example why you should stay away from AMD gpu's. Reusing the same name for a gpu... 6900 was released 13 years ago and the 6900 was released 3 years ago... sad

Btw op, realistically you need a whole new system. That cpu is old and weak also.

[eh why not]

You are trying to run it on what is very weak hardware at this point.

Not trying to be rude but..

FX 8120 is crap by today's standards and wasn't very good when it came out about a decade ago. I doubt it can really handle this game. I doubt it will run any modern game decently (at what most people consider acceptable frame-rates)
Your GPU even if the best card from the HD 6900 series is terrible by today's standards, and doesn't even come close to meeting the minimum requirements for the game. Most integrated gpus now can do about the same performance or better.
Your ram must be DDR3? So while it can work will be extremely slow.

I think it's time to start getting components when you can set them aside until you have enough to build a whole new PC.

There really is no upgrade path for that system. Your CPU even when running an OC to run at clock speeds that are average today will perform much worse due to IPC it has compared to modern cpus. If I remember correctly it also only supports PCIE gen 2... which means any modern GPU will be severely gimped and will likely just be bottlenecked by your cpu to the point it doesn't even make much sense to buy a new gpu.

You could probably pick up a decent used whole system off facebook market place, ebay or whatever that would be 2x or more powerful than your system for under $500.