open GL subsystem (failure)

[Don]

Cannot play Medal of Honor or Wolfenstein 3D amongst a
few of the games that fail to open Gl subsystem. I would
like to get some answers if possible. HELP!!!

 

[Mark Salloway]

Hi Don
Have you updated your video card drivers since installing Windows XP? The
drivers that shipped as part of XP are not suitable for playing hardware
assisted OpenGL games. There is a software opengl implementation in Windows
XP which the system will fall back on, but it cannot offer hardware
acceleration that some games such as MOH or RTCW require.

Mark

 

[Ron Joiner]

Hi Don
Have you updated your video card drivers since installing Windows XP? The
drivers that shipped as part of XP are not suitable for playing hardware
assisted OpenGL games. There is a software opengl implementation in Windows
XP which the system will fall back on, but it cannot offer hardware
acceleration that some games such as MOH or RTCW require.

Mark

Hard to answer unless you provide a little more information.

I had the same problem and I tried everything I could find on the net and
nothing worked. As you know there are all kinds of miracle "fixes" out
there, but the
bottom line is this: something is busted in the opengl subsystem within the
Windows OS (in my case XP Pro) and along with the registry and just about
the only solution is to do a repair install or a
reformat and reinstall. I went the repair route and everything is okay,
OpenGL games work fine but USR modem didn't want to work at first plus there
were a couple of other glitchy things. What I didn't realize is that to
complete the "repair" I had to reinstall SP1 which I did. Everything is fine
now and OpenGL games work great.

Hope this helps.

Ron