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  • New Drivers dont work in Quake 3

    Hi i've downloaded the new drivers and they generally work sweet in Quake and Half-Life (bit faster than last TurboGL in fact).
    However I cannot get them to work in Q3A, the game just locks up after the intro screen, if i try and skip the intro screen it just draws the first frame before the main menu, just a black screen with the q3a logo and locks up again.

    Stuff in the sytem that are relevant are:

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  • #2
    have a look into your Q3 folder (and baseq3), if there's any OPENGL32.DLL and delete it if it's present.
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    • #3
      Thanks but i've already cleaned out all the copies of the TurboGL. It crashes with other things that do work if I dont get rid of it. Tried forcing 1xAGP too, that didn't help.

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      • #4
        I just installed the new drivers (win98) Q3 and all other games run very well, but if I remove the opengl.dll and g400icd.dll the game swont run anymore... (request opengl by games)

        Do I have to delete those (2x dll)? Or are they replaced by the new 5.50.1 drivers?
        TurboGl is not needed anymore? please explain, I'm all confused about this..

        I never installed the 5.50 beta drivers.. I upgrated from the 4.51 drivers

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        • #5
          Faran,

          Do not delete OpenGl related dll files from your Windows\System folder. These are the Windows and Matrox OpenGL ICD files!

          The ones you can delete are TurboGL related; they are in the specific game folders. Since you upgraded from 4.51 I don't think you have the TurboGL installed anyway, so no deleting should be necessary. That said, it's always a good idea to unistall your old drivers using the Matrox uninstallation utility.

          Hope this helps,
          Rahul

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          • #6
            I also have this problem with the new betas, even after a driver uninstall - Half-Life OGL is fine, as is SS2, but Q3A ( retail ) hangs after the intro.

            AGP x1, tried different AGP apertures & desktop colur-depths / resolutions. Same prob using TGL. Fine with earlier versions.

            Hope this is ironed out in the finals...


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            • #7
              Found quite a good solution - just use the 5.30 icd with TurboGL - that way I get the improved (?) DirectX performance of the new beta in SS2 etc, but decent TGL for Half-Life & Q3.

              Interesting though - trying to use TGL with the beta drivers also causes a hang, even though the icd works fine.

              Is it just me & Shogun having these problems ? Anyone else ?

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              • #8
                Correction - the 5.30 icd works with the new betas, but only in 32-bit, and _not with the TGL. All of which may or may not be usefull to someone out there.

                What's the Matrox e-mail for sending comments like these ?

                Cheers

                Ian

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