The dualatin!! !

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she has

SuperMicro P3TDDE motherboard
X2 pentium 3 (1.40ghz/512/133)
2gb of ram
Geforce 7600
x2 hard drives in raid 0 (223gb)

and has Windows 7 Ultimate

problem is i cant get half life to run in opengl or directx but it will run in software mode....still workng on a fix. i want to get this game running in opengl.

anyone have an idea how to get this game running under opengl?

also, in case your wondering, i am goign to use this as my 32bit computer and since i finished this computer i am now working on getting the 64bit computer built. yay.

Sure sounds like an nVidia driver issue to me! Try finding some much older drivers if you can... And will XP even handle two physical processors?

Oop... there's your issue! XP vs. Win7! Win7 won't run some of the old games very well or at all!

BTW - that's a fun old rig! This was the best of the best until the PentiumD finally came along!

i disabled AntiAliasing and direct x looks clearer now. btw it did the same thing in xp

i also tried the older drivers. still no luck.

played alf life 2 deatmatch on it just now. works like a charm.

SO

it looks like its the opengl drivers on the card are not working. any ideas?

Full OpenGL support on consumer-level drivers is a fairly new phenomenon. Early 'OpenGL' drivers really just supported a few basic commands to get specially-written games (like Quake, Quake 2, others I forget) working.

You can try Googling for 'nvidia driver opengl 1.2 support' and the like.. or 1.1... those were the first versions of OpenGL that I remember video drivers fully supporting. Then get the latest drivers that still support the 7600 and Pentium 3s. I don't know how old the 7600 is but Nvidia probably stopped officially supporting P3s a while ago.

Windows 7 vs XP shouldn't matter, but then, in this case, who knows.. this is the type of thing I doubt Nvidia would test for in their latest drivers.

You could try setting the 'Compatibility mode' in the game's properties to XP or whatever else, it might work.

And as I remember, XP Professional supported multiple physical CPUs but Home didn't.. as far as 7, I don't know

i wish you provided links because i cant really find them.

i did test the card and its driver on a windows xp computer and it worked just fine!

i really wish i didnt uninstall windows xp....i thought windows 7 would have been awesome to have on a pentium 3. im so stupid

but for now i will use windows vista if this dosent work out.

I FOUND IT

its Nvidia Driver pack 280.26. after updating to 295.73, thats where half life has opengl. problems.

Oh, I didn't think about the fact that older drivers wouldn't exist for Vista/7..

I'm sure you can find a cheap copy of XP Pro on ebay or somewhere. If you want to use both CPUs, check up on me and make sure I'm right about XP Pro using them both

well hot damn on a summer sunday. xp pro dosent recognize the onboard raid nor pci raid card.

i tried using multiple floppy disks and drives

i also tried using windows vista. still the same flipping error. so i thought

"MAYBE ITS TEH GRAPFICS GARD DERP HERP AUTISM DERP"

and placed it into another computer wtih windows xp and then ran the opengl games and they work like a friggin charm.

so i tried windows xp AGAIN starting all over iwth the raid array, formatting the drives, and then restarting setup. and it still gives me these errors for the two raid cards

"setup cannot copy fasttrak100.sys"

and

"setup cannot copy iteraid.sys"

this makes me want to grab bill gates, Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM THE TWIN TOWERS (rebuilt).

anyslack i did hear that they are making steam for linux...but its on ubuntu...which has unity. poo

i also tried copying opengl32.dll (from system32 folder) to the gldrv folder. still not luck. tried the same with the nvidias opengl32.dll version and WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!?! IT STILL DOSENT BLOODY WORK.

so right now im reinstalling windows 7 pro and im going to try those drivers again. if it still dosent work then i will use the 280 driver pack from nvidia and just game with those until they actually fix in their next set of drivers. why? because the nvidia driver pack 280 is the latest drivers i can use to actually use opengl.

you'll need a huge heat sink to deal with that dual latin heat

alright, windows 7 pro is installed...half life opengl is acutally running like a charm (on Nvidia Driver 280)

as windows 7 pro was updating i noticed that it was downloading .net 4.0 so i thought to myself "oh, maybe thats what the driver needs". so im going to give it another go once it is fully updated.

if it dosent then ill just stick with Nvidia Driver pack 280.

noticed that TS dosent like windows 7.

SO i took the DVD to god to erase it (stupid dvd burner) and he unleashed his full furry formating wrath on the dvd. it was like as if i just bought it from the store. so we burnt a copy of windows xp to the dvd, installed xp, and got half life working with the latest nvidia drivers.


NVIDIA. NEEDS. TO. FIX. THIS.

anyway, thanks for the help guys!



(i updated this because someone else might be having the same problem i am having)

I'm amazed that Windows 7 works on a P3 I'm glad to hear you got it working. Enjoy