Installing games under Vista

[Guest]

I have been trying to install the game Urban Terror under Vista but I keep
getting the following error message Can anyone help?

GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

I have updated the video drivers, from ATI's website, and I think thats
where the problem lies I have run the driver update as administrator and it
goes thru the throws of updating but nothing seems to have changed after the
"update" I am still left with the same old drivers after a restart as I had
before the "update".
What am I doing wrong?

Adrian

 

[Guest]

Oops should have mentioned I have Vista Business dual core 3ghz CPU and an
X800 series video card with 256m memory and 2gig Ram

Adrian

 

[Andy [YaYa]]

Oops should have mentioned I have Vista Business dual core 3ghz CPU and an
X800 series video card with 256m memory and 2gig Ram

Adrian

Well first off if you have the latest drivers from http://ati.amd.com for
Vista you should not have to right-click the driver installer and choose
"Run as Administrator", just run it, hit continue at the security check.

You might look on the ATi site for the driver "uninstaller", run that first,
reboot, then run the driver installer for Vista.

Honestly I've never heard of Urban Terror, if there's a website for the game
you might check to see if they have any known issues with Vista, they might
have a workaround posted there.

 

[Guest]

The amount of people this is affecting ! ! !! !

Lots of searching, and still no concrete solution !
See:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/2006/?o=100

Well first off if you have the latest drivers from http://ati.amd.com for
Vista you should not have to right-click the driver installer and choose
"Run as Administrator", just run it, hit continue at the security check.

You might look on the ATi site for the driver "uninstaller", run that first,
reboot, then run the driver installer for Vista.

Honestly I've never heard of Urban Terror, if there's a website for the game
you might check to see if they have any known issues with Vista, they might
have a workaround posted there.

Hi,
You wont believe how many people this is affecting !!!!
Dont know why MicroSoft dont do something about it ! !

See:-

 

[Andy [YaYa]]

Well of course it's affecting a lot of people, it's a problem, when people
have problems, they tend to write about it. People that aren't having
problems are too busy playing the game.

That topic you linked was started in 2002 and it's now just over 6 pages
long. That's not a "Major" issue.

If your system is unable to Start OpenGL (Think DirectX, but it works on
other systems, not just Windows) then it's your video card/drivers do not
support OpenGL (unlikely), or OpenGL is having problems loading (more
likely).

How you get it working, I don't know. Does Urban Terror have a DirectX Mode
you can use instead of OpenGL?
--
Read a bunch of links on google for "quake 3 GLW_StartOpenGL() fix", since
Urban Terror is basically a Quake 3 engine game any fixes for this game
should resolve the problem.

The only thing you might want to try is to go to the Quake 3 folder and see
if there's a 3Dfx driver called: "3dfxvgl.dll"

If there is, try renaming the files to something like: "3dfxvgl.bak" just
temporarily.

See if that lets the game run. It also seems like the majority of people
having problems are on ATi cards.

Check with ATi, see if they have a fix for Quake 3/OpenGL games under Vista
with the latest Catalyst driver.

You might also try forcing the game to load in a LOW resolution. It could be
OpenGL doesn't like higher resolutions.

You might try finding the q3config file in your Urban Terror folder, and
edit it, look for the game resolution and set yours to 800x600 or even
640x480.

See if the game will at least load up.

Good luck,
A.