crashing weirdness

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:43 am

Well, I've been having some weird things happen lately with my computer, one symptom of which is that Q4 starts up with a grey screen, then flashes black and goes back to desktop. So to fix it I

1 reinstalled Q4
2 uninstalled omega drivers
3 installed cat 5.11

None of these fixed the problem, but now I get this error in the console when I run the game:

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--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 3 selected
...creating GL context: failed
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): failed
...releasing DC: success
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 3 selected
...creating GL context: failed
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): failed

Any ideas?

I fear my HD's may be failing or something, or maybe my power supply which has one fan out (the other one still works and it seems to not be putting out super hot air).

Post by **axbaby** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:25 am

those look like video subroutines that are failing so drivers do sound like the culprit.

try and see if there is such a thing as an ATI driver cleaner that scans your computer just like Nvidia's NVcleaner program.

check system properties in the windows control panel and see if any hardware devices are problems are showing up.

shut down programs that do not need to be run prior to starting Q4

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:00 pm

axbaby wrote:try and see if there is such a thing as an ATI driver cleaner that scans your computer just like Nvidia's NVcleaner program.

There is, it's a universal driver cleaner actually so it works with nVidia and ATI, link in a minute.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:23 pm

Ya when I had uninstalled Omega drivers, I ran the driver cleaner before reinstalling the ATI 5.11 drivers.

I thought maybe it didn't really clean everything up so I tried doing the process again, but now Q4 just crashes to desktop with no message in the console as it did before. Really weird.

Also looking in the registry, it had listed the opengl version as 0.0.0.0.0

Obviously it can't find the right driver files, but that seems strange since it should have at the least the old drivers for that, and should have the new ones from the install.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Do I have to reboot again after running driver cleaner? Here is what I tried:

Uninstall drivers.
Run driver cleaner.
Reboot.
Run driver cleaner again.
Install new drivers.
Reboot.
Run Q4

crashes to desktop with no error message.

I'm get really suspicious about the integrity of my whole system at this point, so I might just format and start from scratch. Hate doing that though, I have about 100+ apps installed. Stupid windows. On mac you can reinstall the OS and your app installs stay intact, at least the old version of mac os, that was a thing of beauty.

Post by **axbaby** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:24 pm

okay my first question should have been

yup install drivers reboot clean drivers reboot re-install

system specs
type of video card
OS

perhaps update motherboard drivers and sound card drivers as well

try disabling smartgart and overdrive ..right click on the desktop choose advanced display properties and those tabs should be there.

if not there..try downloading and installing not the latest but the previous driver version from ATI or http://www.rage3d.com and the control panel software

delete your q4config so quake4 can rebuild a new one and recognize the hardware devices you have installed.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:29 am

Ya well turns out both of my 80 gig drives on my primary raid are failing, so I'm going to reinstall everything.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:50 am

Hmm, it looks like the problem was that the lastest drivers don't install opengl if you just install the driver part, you have to install the control panel as well. gg ATI. Either that or the version is messed up, I reverted back to 5.7 version and it's working. Not sure which of those two did it exactly.