Hello all. I've been going on the anandtech site for quite some time now and just the other day I discovered the forums. Well, here's my problem:
When I got my Compaq computer in early 2000, games like Quake 3 Arena and any other OpenGL game would run fine. Unreal Tournament would sometimes freeze up on me in the MeTaL renderer (i think it's standard for savage4 cards). Half-Life and all those other games work fine in OpenGL and Direct3D. I was running everything in DirectX7 and then when I upgraded to DirectX8a everything was still fine.
Then I reformatted, and when I reinstalled everything, Quake 3 Arena, Serious Sam, and other OpenGL games wouldn't work!! The colors were all distorted (mostly lighting problems) and the games would freeze! Unreal Tournament works fine now in MeTaL, as well as all my other games, but none work in OGL anymore! I've reformatted twice since the 1st time, 1 was yesterday, and I've tried many different vidoe card drivers. The ones I'm using now are from www.glsetup.com.
I really wanna be able to play Serious Sam and Quake 3 again. If someone has an idea of which drivers to use or something different, please reply. Here are my system specs:
Compaq Presario (model 7940)
600mhz Athlon
Unknown motherboard (but it uses a VIA chipset, I have the 4-in-1 4.31 FINAL drivers installed too)
S3 Savage4 (with latest drivers from glsetup.com)
Windows 98 SE (with latest patches from microsoft site)
DirectX8a
Sound Blaster PCI128 (placed 3 slots below the AGP card)
Thank you in advance.
When I got my Compaq computer in early 2000, games like Quake 3 Arena and any other OpenGL game would run fine. Unreal Tournament would sometimes freeze up on me in the MeTaL renderer (i think it's standard for savage4 cards). Half-Life and all those other games work fine in OpenGL and Direct3D. I was running everything in DirectX7 and then when I upgraded to DirectX8a everything was still fine.
Then I reformatted, and when I reinstalled everything, Quake 3 Arena, Serious Sam, and other OpenGL games wouldn't work!! The colors were all distorted (mostly lighting problems) and the games would freeze! Unreal Tournament works fine now in MeTaL, as well as all my other games, but none work in OGL anymore! I've reformatted twice since the 1st time, 1 was yesterday, and I've tried many different vidoe card drivers. The ones I'm using now are from www.glsetup.com.
I really wanna be able to play Serious Sam and Quake 3 again. If someone has an idea of which drivers to use or something different, please reply. Here are my system specs:
Compaq Presario (model 7940)
600mhz Athlon
Unknown motherboard (but it uses a VIA chipset, I have the 4-in-1 4.31 FINAL drivers installed too)
S3 Savage4 (with latest drivers from glsetup.com)
Windows 98 SE (with latest patches from microsoft site)
DirectX8a
Sound Blaster PCI128 (placed 3 slots below the AGP card)
Thank you in advance.