9800 pro : openGL is hosed.

[Walter Mitty]

Trying to run Doom3 with my new 9800pro. Get the following errors and
the game shuts down. Any ideas? How does one reinstall openGL? I have
tried various ATI drivers all with the same results.

=== Doom 3 Start Log ===
2533 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2
1024 MB System Memory
128 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: Nigel
IP: 192.168.1.100
doom using MMX & SSE & SSE2 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Current search path:
J:\Programme\Doom 3/base
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
--------------------------------------
4966 strings read from strings/english.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
4966 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
....registered window class
....registered fake window class
....initializing QGL
....calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
....calling CDS: ok
....created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
....getting DC: succeeded
....attempting to use stereo
....PIXELFORMAT 7 selected
....creating GL context: succeeded
....making context current: succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found
X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the
necessary features
********************
Error during initialization
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
....wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
....deleting GL context: success
....releasing DC: success
....destroying window
....resetting display
....shutting down QGL
....unloading OpenGL DLL

 

[SteveTilson]

Trying to run Doom3 with my new 9800pro. Get the following errors and
the game shuts down. Any ideas? How does one reinstall openGL? I have
tried various ATI drivers all with the same results.

Sorry I don't have any advice... I'm just a little alarmed that someone's
having so much trouble with a 9800 Pro, which is the card I intend to buy
soon. I wonder how widespread these problems are? I can't imagine they'd
be very common, or we'd've been hearing more about them.

Steve Tilson

 

[OldDog]

Check the ATI web site forum/FAQ.
Check iD web site forum/FAQ.

If no luck there, email ATI & iD tech support.

 

[Walter Mitty]

Check the ATI web site forum/FAQ.
Check iD web site forum/FAQ.

If no luck there, email ATI & iD tech support.

erm, thanks for that.

 

[Walter Mitty]

Sorry I don't have any advice... I'm just a little alarmed that someone's
having so much trouble with a 9800 Pro, which is the card I intend to buy
soon. I wonder how widespread these problems are? I can't imagine they'd
be very common, or we'd've been hearing more about them.

Steve Tilson

I dont believe there are normally problems with these cards. I've never
had issues before with new HW. All D3D etc works now, just not opengl in
any form.

 

[noman]

I dont believe there are normally problems with these cards. I've never
had issues before with new HW. All D3D etc works now, just not opengl in
any form.

I think, some remnants of your older graphic card software is still
there messing up things.

When you uninstall ATI drivers, do you go to 'Add/Remove Programs'
and then select, "ATI Software Uninstall Utility" ? That is the
proper way to uninstall Catalyst drivers. I'd suggest doing that
and then reinstalling Catalyst 4.11 which came out on Friday.
At least that should eliminate any ATI driver issues.

By the way, regarding your problems with the LCD monitor, the
graphic card should have worked with the standard VGA connector
as well. I'd still suggest starting with a clean slate by
reinstalling WinXP. If that's too drastic a step, then start
off by installing WinXP in a backup hard disk or partition,
just to check if that would help.

I hope you get these things sorted out. It's a great card and
you should have great time in Half Life 2 and DOOM3.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

It sounds like you may have some lingering remnants of old drivers. Did you
uninstall any old drivers before you swapped graphics cards?

I have a non-horrendous suggestion:

Download and install Driver Cleaner (http://www.drivercleaner.net/).

Uninstall the Radeon drivers, from the add/remove programs control panel.
Reboot. If you're running XP, don't let it search for drivers. Stay with the
generic VGA drivers for the moment.

Run Driver Cleaner. Remove any remnants of the ATI drivers, plus any drivers
left over from your previous graphics card (if any). You could do the same
thing manually, but Driver Cleaner appears to be safe.

Install your favorite Radeon drivers again.

Keep your fingers crossed while you reboot.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[OldDog]

erm, thanks for that.

You're welcome.

I've actually gotten a couple answer by visiting ATI web site and using
their FAQ (issue with my ATI 9800 Pro installation). And I've been
successful with Tech Support from other hardware vendor. My email
recommendation was in case no one else in here could help.

 

[Oliver J. Hanau]

When you uninstall ATI drivers, do you go to 'Add/Remove Programs'
and then select, "ATI Software Uninstall Utility" ? That is the
proper way to uninstall Catalyst drivers.

I've had problems with this in the past, and there's a number of "How
to completely uninstall ATI drivers" sites such as this one:
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1222.aspx

I'd suggest Walter give this a try before re-installing Windows.

Oliver.

 

[Sleepy]

Trying to run Doom3 with my new 9800pro. Get the following errors and the
game shuts down. Any ideas? How does one reinstall openGL? I have tried
various ATI drivers all with the same results.

=== Doom 3 Start Log ===
2533 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2
1024 MB System Memory
128 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: Nigel
IP: 192.168.1.100
doom using MMX & SSE & SSE2 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Current search path:
J:\Programme\Doom 3/base
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
J:\Programme\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.

Anyone who has a J drive has one helluva convoluted setup
- how about a reinstall and keep things simple ?
Keep your drivers up to date - uninstall old drivers before installing new
ones. Keep your systray as empty as you can.

 

[Walter Mitty]

Anyone who has a J drive has one helluva convoluted setup
- how about a reinstall and keep things simple ?

???

I have two hard drives, two DVDs and various plug in devices. Its not
that convoluted.

Reinstallation??? And lose all my current SW setups? No way. I just need
to find a way to reinstall the base VGA drivers. So far everything has
been unsuccessful.

 

[riku]

Anyone who has a J drive has one helluva convoluted setup
- how about a reinstall and keep things simple ?

I have drives up to J as well, even though I haven't partitioned my
hard drives that much. Lets see:

C: is the FAT32 partition for running Win98-only games (dual boot
system) (15 GB)
D: is the WinXP system partition (NTFS) (around 65 GB)
E: is a another XP/NTFS hard drive (80 GB, one physical hard drive))
F: DVD-ROM drive
G: DVD-RW drive
H: a virtual drive (Daemon Tools)
I: big external hard drive (NTFS, firewire)
J: another big external hard drive (NTFS, firewire)

Not hard at all to get that many drives in Windows. Add to that if
this was a networked environment and I would have a bunch of network
drives...

Windows drive letter system simply sucks. If this was Linux or some
unix box, I wouldn't have any stupid "drive letters", but the
different drives would just be mounted to different directory names,
like /cdrom, /datafiles1, /datafiles2, /backup etc. They would all
seem just like a normal directory tree to me even if different
subdirectories would point to different hard drives, devices or
network drives, and I would never have to fear running out of "drive
letters" (Z is the last letter, right?) because there is no such thing
in Linux/unix.

 

[John Lewis]

???

I have two hard drives, two DVDs and various plug in devices. Its not
that convoluted.

Reinstallation??? And lose all my current SW setups? No way. I just need
to find a way to reinstall the base VGA drivers. So far everything has
been unsuccessful.

In Safe Mode ?

If not successful, use Driver Cleaner 3 to purge the current driver.
Read the instructions very carefully.

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

John Lewis

 

[John Lewis]

I have drives up to J as well, even though I haven't partitioned my
hard drives that much. Lets see:

C: is the FAT32 partition for running Win98-only games (dual boot
system) (15 GB)
D: is the WinXP system partition (NTFS) (around 65 GB)
E: is a another XP/NTFS hard drive (80 GB, one physical hard drive))
F: DVD-ROM drive
G: DVD-RW drive
H: a virtual drive (Daemon Tools)
I: big external hard drive (NTFS, firewire)
J: another big external hard drive (NTFS, firewire)

Not hard at all to get that many drives in Windows. Add to that if
this was a networked environment and I would have a bunch of network
drives...

Windows drive letter system simply sucks. If this was Linux or some
unix box, I wouldn't have any stupid "drive letters", but the
different drives would just be mounted to different directory names,
like /cdrom, /datafiles1, /datafiles2, /backup etc. They would all
seem just like a normal directory tree to me even if different
subdirectories would point to different hard drives, devices or
network drives, and I would never have to fear running out of "drive
letters" (Z is the last letter, right?) because there is no such thing
in Linux/unix.

Or in AmigaDOS. But hey, nobody said the M$$$ was less than 15 years
behind the times..........

John Lewis

 

[Walter Mitty]

Or in AmigaDOS. But hey, nobody said the M$$$ was less than 15 years
behind the times..........

John Lewis

Or unlimited in VMS or UNIX - just mount a new filesystem. Windows
always had this too didn't it? I had at least 3 or 4 partitions 8 years
ago on a windows system following the discovery of partition magic.

 

[Trout]

I dont believe there are normally problems with these cards. I've never
had issues before with new HW. All D3D etc works now, just not opengl in
any form.

But I saw you post in the action group that you had a problem with D3D
HW acceleration earlier. You obviously have a messed up driver
install. Get ATI driver cleaner from ATI website. Use it to clean out
the mess you have now and then install the latest Omega drivers and
see how that goes.

 

[Walter Mitty]

But I saw you post in the action group that you had a problem with D3D
HW acceleration earlier. You obviously have a messed up driver
install. Get ATI driver cleaner from ATI website. Use it to clean out
the mess you have now and then install the latest Omega drivers and
see how that goes.

D3D worked with a certain driver level. The Omega drivers were
definitely a no-go. Anyway, all resolved now. I have a feeling that one
of the problems was a locked registry entry - how it got that way I
don't know.

 

[Nerdillius Maximus]

Ah, so. Look in registry for key "OpenGL". See if previous graphics card has
entry of its own OGL driver there. Delete. ATI's OpenGL driver should be the
only one enumerated.

You did uninstall the other card's driver software completely before
installing the 9800 Pro, right?

 

[riku]

Or in AmigaDOS. But hey, nobody said the M$$$ was less than 15 years
behind the times..........

AmigaDOS is better, but didn't it also at least use to have specific
"names" for different devices, like df0:, df1: etc.? Maybe you could
mount those to different directory names, I don't remember...