Starting quake 3

Post by **str0004** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:58 am

When i try to start quake 3 i get errors in the console that comes up. It says "Cannot Open GL subsystem....." or something along those lines. I have found out that GL refers to 3d graphics settings or something so that might be something to do with it but that is all i know and i would really like a solution, if someone here knows what i can do about this i would really appreciate it if they could tell me ASAP.

Post by **U4EA** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:03 am

What video card have you got? Looks like you need to install the latest drivers for it.

Post by **str0004** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:49 am

The graphics card on his box is "NVIDIA GFORCE2 MX/MX400."

And i checked the version of the driver it had and if i read all the information correctly it is a really old version that hasnt been updated very recently (it said it was from 2001) so ive gone looking for a newer one and downloaded one which looks compatible judging from the info i saw on the site i went to so im going to try installing that and see if that helps.

Thanks for the tip.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:59 pm

the Driver for nvidia/ati based cards are unified.. thus you dont need to select what card you have or anything, you just download the driver pack and install..

Post by **str0004** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:40 pm

Ive updated the driver, i was a little concerned about compatability with systems and card types and such so AmIdYfReAk was right. Anyway, i installed the driver that i found and it seemed to work and then i tried Quake3 again and it worked perfectly.

Everything works now. Thanks a lot to everyone who helped