"3D accelerator not supported" I played for years?

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I have played all afternoon. I decide to take a break for about three-four hours.

I log in, and immediately have some problems: I get disconnected. I push the big red button to reconnect, nothing. I try to log off, but then the reconnect works, and I am logged inside my character list.

However, as I play on my character, I can’t access my list of battle-net friends from inside the game. Or talk with my guildies. So I decide to log off and try in 20 minutes. Turns out, my battle-net is now a black screen of death. So I click WoW.exe instead of the launcher.

And I get this message:
“Your 3D accelerator card is not supported by World of Warcraft.”

I never had issues before? All of a sudden a fairly good gaming laptop can’t run WoW?

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Make sure that you’ve updated to your latest video drivers. Also check that the OS isn’t drying to boot up wow on integrated graphics.

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Did you try restarting your computer? Sounds like your GPU drivers might have crashed and/or restarted for some reason. Assuming the card is not failing restart should get that sorted out.

If not, you can try to reinstall the drivers.

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Tried the above ideas, but I get the same message (restarting, checking for updates, checking if the OS was booting up WoW on integrated graphics). I have also tried to open Warcraft III, to see if I would have the same problem, and I also get a black screen of death.

However I managed to get Battle.net running by changing settings and disabling browser hardware acceleration. So it may be the laptop putting WoW where it shouldn’t be?

I think I will try to reinstall the drivers and see where that goes.

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