I just got a Dell Inspiron 5000 with a Rage Mobility-P. Although Direct3D games (such as GTA2) work fine, I can't figure out how to get OpenGL games (like Quake 2) to work - for example, in Quake 2, when I try to switch to default OpenGL mode, the console attempts to load ref_gl.dll until it says something along the lines of "No hardware acceleration detected." How can I get OpenGL games to work with my Rage Mobility?
Rage Mobility and OpenGL?
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SquireTuck
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What color depth is your desktop at? OpenGL uses the same color depth as your desktop, and only 16bpp is supported. Meaning, if you run your desktop at anything but 16bpp color, then OpenGL games will not work. The only exceptions are Quake 3 and Half-Life, which automatically switch to 16bpp.
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Cheran Shunmugavel
(Still proud to use a Rage Pro!)
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Cheran Shunmugavel
(Still proud to use a Rage Pro!)
RAGE LT MAN
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Make sure that you have the atoglrp9.dll in your windows system folder (if using an RLTM driver or older ATI driver). Or an Atioxae/atioxad.dll in there (for newer ATI drivers, not mine). Also, make sure that your opengl32.dll is microsoft, not ATI or someone like that. And you are running 9x, right?
Well, the strangest thing happened...I installed one of the GD drivers (7.7, I think, but I don't remember if it was 7.7 or 7.5), and probably because I installed them over the old ATI drivers without uninstalling them first, Windows ceased to load anymore. So, I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled Win98 and all my drivers and stuff (god bless Dell for including all the drivers needed for a clean restart)...and miraculously, Quake 2 works now even though it didn't before 
I'm not sure about the ati dll before everything got messed up, or if I had a Microsoft OpenGL file or not, although I do know that I was using 16-bit color on my desktop. Anyway, should I install the GD 7.7 anyway? Also, I have some other questions...what's the difference between the game drivers and the final drivers? Which one should I get? Lastly, what should I do to properly uninstall my current ATI drivers? Thanks
I'm not sure about the ati dll before everything got messed up, or if I had a Microsoft OpenGL file or not, although I do know that I was using 16-bit color on my desktop. Anyway, should I install the GD 7.7 anyway? Also, I have some other questions...what's the difference between the game drivers and the final drivers? Which one should I get? Lastly, what should I do to properly uninstall my current ATI drivers? Thanks RAGE LT MAN
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lots of fun and useful questions.. the FD is a multimedia+performace driver. It has a good balance of both, and is probably at about the same game perfomance level as the newer dell drivers. The GD is a high performance gaming driver that is faster than the others, compact too . To uninstall all the ati things, you need to into the system properties and set your video adapter up as a standard vga then delete the ati registry entry in the HKLM/software key, then reboot. go into the windows system dir, delete all the ATI files. Then do the same for the system32 and windows/inf/other folders. After that install whatever driver you want, and you're done. This process is called a clean install
. To uninstall all the ati things, you need to into the system properties and set your video adapter up as a standard vga then delete the ati registry entry in the HKLM/software key, then reboot. go into the windows system dir, delete all the ATI files. Then do the same for the system32 and windows/inf/other folders. After that install whatever driver you want, and you're done. This process is called a clean install