I have recently upgraded from Win98 se to Win XP Pro. Everything went fine and everyday use is ok with no glitches.
However, when I try to run any games (Castle Wolfenstein, SofF, Max Payne etc.) the menus and the game graphics corrupt making the games unplayable. Castle Wolfenstein won’t even load but does mention that it cannot load Open GL subsystem (see report at the bottom of message).
All these games worked fine with my Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS card (Dell) before I installed WinXP. However, I noted on installation that it replaced the drivers with the Windows certified ones. I have since tried to install the latest XP drivers for my card from the Dell website and also tried the latest DetonatorXP drivers. The games will run but I can see graphical glitches and shortly afterwards the game lock up my system resulting in a hard reset. The result is the same with all the driver versions i've tried.
I have a VIA chipset motherboard (Abit) and have downloaded the latest 4in1 drivers (v4.37) for it. I also have DirectX 8.1 installed.
Any helpful comments would be appreciated.
The Castle Wolfenstein error report is as follows:-
Wolf 1.0.0 win-x86 Nov 13 2001
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 4: 800 600 FS
...using colorsbits of 32
...calling CDS: ok
...registered window class
...created window@0,0 (800x600)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (4)
...setting mode 4: 800 600 FS
...using colorsbits of 16
...calling CDS: ok
...created window@0,0 (800x600)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 24, 8 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 24, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
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GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
