Opengl R Teh B0rked :(

DiscoZombie

<div class="IPBDescription">how I fix, ya?</div> kinda starting to feel like this is my own personal technical support forum but ... =P on to my next problem:

I think I mentioned this in passing in another thread, but not a single opengl-reliant game I own works on my new computar. Most crash as soon as I start em. Direct3d works like a charm, but if I put HL in opengl mode, or run serious sam, or umm... other such games, it's crashy time. yes, I have my latest ATI drivers, I have the lastest drivers for every piece of hardware in this machine... to no avail. The only workaround I've found has been to use a program called DirectGL, which really crappily emulates OpenGL via direct3d... usually with lots of slowness and graphical glitches...

anyone have any insights or suggestions as to where to look for fixin' it?

equipments:

Radeon 9600 pro all-in-wonder, athlon 3200+... dunno what you'd need to know about besides video card really...

anyway, thanks if anyone has any insight...

Soylent_green

I had this problem with an NV card once, I fixed it by un-installing the drivers and making sure they where absolutely gone, and then redownloading and installing the latest drivers(note, just removing the drivers with the install/un-install programs meny and re-installing the drivers did NOT fix it, I had to download a third-party app to clean out the NV related registry setting and such.)

DiscoZombie

Soylent: I just did that actually, to improve bad benchmarks... and it DID improve my benchmarks, but surprisingly, it didn't change the OpenGL problem <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> thanks for the input, twas a good idea...

Confused

check your open gls seetings on the card its self. the ati drivers tend to have very odd default settings. my 8500 tends to act wierd when i change drivers. i would actually go look on atis web site they usually have fixes for most common problems on tehir page. if that dont work their tech supposrt has been quite good to me in the past. problem has allways been fixed with in 24 hours any way cheers

DiscoZombie

problem solved: apparently when OpenGL checks what vid card I have, it sees "all-in-wonder" and doesn't know what that is. Deep in the bowels of the ATI website is a hotfix, which changes the name of your video card to "Radeon all-in-wonder." poof, it works. what a stupid problem, eh?

thanks for the hints guys :>