OpenGL prob with Quake 3

[puddy3000]

i keep getting this OpenGL error when i load quake. its rather annoying and ive seen posts other places with the same problem but with no solution. does anyone have any advice? heres the last part of the error message:


...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

 

[ApacheXMD]

do you have a 3dfx card?
if so, which one? voodoo1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

and do you have the latest drivers installed?

-patchy

 

[puddy3000]

thanx for the input but apparently i dont have a 3dfx card. so now i have to buy one

 

[ApacheXMD]

no no no
you don't have to buy one.
the error you're getting is because q3 thinks you have one, and is trying to load up the 3dfx opengl driver for the card.

what video card do you have?

assuming you have an opengl capable card, what you need to do is remove all .dll files besides opengl32.dll in the baseq3 directory within the quake3 directory.

my guess is that for whatever reason, the 3dfx mini gl driver got stuck in there and that ain't gonna work, first of all, because you don't have a 3dfx card and second, the mini driver doesn't work for q3

-patchy