New to Quake III, PLEASE HELP ME!!!! OPEN GL Problems etc.!

[cgonzal2]

Ok, I am new to the whole Quake game, I just got quake 4 but I heard that Quake 3 is just classic and so much more fun, so I want to try it,,, I downloaded a demo and when I try and set it to the highest settings I get this error message in a box "GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem", I know you usually ahve trouble playing old games on new computers and I have a custon built AMD dual core Athlon X2 4200+, with two 7800GT's running in SLI mode, with 2 gigs of ram, etc.... I have a top of the line system so thats not the problem, I want to know if there is some fix or update for this to play Quake III perfectly without any errors? Please let me know if you know how to fix this without changing anythign on my computer, I dont wan to have to like install drivers from 2000 or somrthing, there has to be a way to play this game, thanks!

[R00k]

No, you should be able to run it perfectly on that system with the latest drivers. I'm running the same thing (cept I only have a single 7800 card).

[cgonzal2]

yeah i know that, i need somone who has had the same error message or knows what to do, sorry, not trying to be mean, its just weird that I cant play it normally, there has to be something to do to fix this error message, thanks

[Tormentius]

Reinstall your vid drivers and install the 1.32 patch for Quake 3.

[cgonzal2]

tried that didnt work???? help

[AmIdYfReAk]

so it runs on other settings, But when you put it to high it reports that it cant open Opengl...

right?

[cgonzal2]

yes exactly, its when i try and do 1600x1200 mode, all other setting work fine now, after some tweaking, but it wont run in 1600 modes and now i cant go online either, whats a good way to play online, without paying?? thanks

[dzjepp]

Post a link to which video driver you installed

[AmIdYfReAk]

we'll you need to pay to get quake 3, other then that, Multiplayer is Free..

And i agree with Dzjepp.

[Tormentius]

yes exactly, its when i try and do 1600x1200 mode, all other setting work fine now, after some tweaking, but it wont run in 1600 modes and now i cant go online either, whats a good way to play online, without paying?? thanks

Buy a copy of the game because we're not going to advise you on how to rip off ID Software. On that note, this thread is done.