GLW_StartOpenGL()

[bogard81]

Now i,m sick of it.my brother want's to play "return to castle wolfenstein" and gives me this erorr "can't open GLW_StartOpenGL()".i'm having geforce2 and windows xp.i tried some patches but nothing.on windows 98 there where no troubles(i was playing this game some time ago when i used 98).what's my problem?

[Gryph]

Reinstall graphics drivers or something.

[Agozer]

OpenGL drivers for the card are flocked. You should really try some other OpenGL games to verify though.

[Elazul Yagami]

worked for me just fine when i had the card.

 

solution:

 

1-uninstall game

2-update your drivers. (you may want to uninstall old ones)

3-reinstall game.

4-play.

[Trotterwatch]

The graphics card drivers update should sort it. If you've already done that and are still having troubles - have you ever installed a Glide wrapper of some sort into your Windows (or Windows/System32 folder?) If so that can also cause this in RTCW - had it myself actually, the game thinks you are using a 3DFX card and automatically selects Glide, which then fails thru the wrapper.

 

Think the former will fix it though more than the ramblings of the latter

[Agozer]

So you're saying that if Glide3x.dll is in the System32 folder, RTCW automatically defaults to 3Dfx/Glide? I find that odd.

 

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Or then I missed your point.

[Trotterwatch]

So you're saying that if Glide3x.dll is in the System32 folder, RTCW automatically defaults to 3Dfx/Glide? I find that odd.

 

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Or then I missed your point.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Yep, that is exactly what I was saying. The problem happened with me, basically game would load to the title screen, try to go in game and the game would crash 100% of the time. I traced it to the Glide wrapper I had installed in the system folder a while back.

 

This is the only game I've found that exhibited this behaviour. And yes odd is the word

 

The only explanation I can think of is the Catalyst drivers at the time for my card had a small bug. Now I can't replicate the issue at all - the game defaults to GL as it should.

 

Edit:

 

Just found the error log from that time, dated April 15th 2005:

 

Beginning Glide3 log

panic: texel download out of bounds > listed a lot of times

Edited January 8, 2006 by Trotterwatch

[Agozer]

Hm. Gaming is full of surprises. Funny that it forces Glide, if the Glide DLL's are in System32.

[Weirdy]

I think driver cleaner pro edition deletes old driver dll's (which cause conflicts and lots of lag)