Wolfenstein crashes to blue window...

[pvanosta]

Whenever I start Wolfenstein on my main machine (Athlon 1.4 @ 1.6-12x133), it crashes before it even opens, throwing me back to the small blue window, citing some opengl error.
I also have the game on my Laptop (a Dell with Geforce2Go 32 MB) and it runs fine on that.
Both my systems have Windows XP, both are using the NVidia 21.81 drivers. My main system has the Geforce3.
For a while, Wolfenstein came up when I clocked down my Geforce 3 from 220/505 to 200/460.
I can play Q3A, UT, Max Payne, Deus Ex, Half Life, ETC... in WinXP, and FASTER than Win2k and even faster than WinME.
Only Wolfenstein gives me these problems, which have just re-occurred, even after I slowed down my Geforce 3 to default settings.

I was able to play 30 minutes at 1280x1024x32 with quincunx anti-aliasing. It was VERY beautiful and VERY smooth...but now it's gone :-((

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Any ideas what the cause might be?

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by pvanosta
Whenever I start Wolfenstein on my main machine (Athlon 1.4 @ 1.6-12x133), it crashes before it even opens, throwing me back to the small blue window, citing some opengl error.
I also have the game on my Laptop (a Dell with Geforce2Go 32 MB) and it runs fine on that.
Both my systems have Windows XP, both are using the NVidia 21.81 drivers. My main system has the Geforce3.
For a while, Wolfenstein came up when I clocked down my Geforce 3 from 220/505 to 200/460.
I can play Q3A, UT, Max Payne, Deus Ex, Half Life, ETC... in WinXP, and FASTER than Win2k and even faster than WinME.
Only Wolfenstein gives me these problems, which have just re-occurred, even after I slowed down my Geforce 3 to default settings.

I was able to play 30 minutes at 1280x1024x32 with quincunx anti-aliasing. It was VERY beautiful and VERY smooth...but now it's gone :-((

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Any ideas what the cause might be?

Wolfenstien? As in the original Wolfenstien, or Return to Castle Wolfenstien? Where the hell did you get the new one, if that's the one you're talking about?

As for why, if it IS the new one, then it's a Beta, maybe still in an alpha stage. Highly erronious.

Edit: I am a total moron, I didnt realize the demo was out. I'm DEFINATELY going to wait in line for this!

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by PhLuBB


Wolfenstien? As in the original Wolfenstien, or Return to Castle Wolfenstien? Where the hell did you get the new one, if that's the one you're talking about?

As for why, if it IS the new one, then it's a Beta, maybe still in an alpha stage. Highly erronious.

Edit: I am a total moron, I didnt realize the demo was out. I'm DEFINATELY going to wait in line for this!

It's worth the wait, but when I was @ fileplanet the wait was over 80 minutes!! Someone posted a link from nvidia's site somewhere around here...I'll see if I can dig it up.

[Amedeo602]

Here it is. Many thanks to Ambient Fiction for posting this: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/1000/SUPP/wolfmptest.exe

[parkan]

AGRH! I just posted a LOOONG and funny reply but the server didn't accept it. Have to retype.

Go to glsetup.com and get the latest openGl drivers, quake3 engine has this problem.
Instead of using FP, use godzill.com, find your file, then d-load it with getright (from download.com). Much faster and no waiting.

[Zeke009]

I was going to say something to similar to what parkan said. I had the same problem with the latest Q3A release... I just reinstalled the last set of vid card drivers I downloaded, grabbed the lastest opengl, and even downloaded that patch (for Q3A) again. Just in case mine was corrupted.

Problem was solved, tough to say which one it was or what combo fixed it. You could try to download the beta again and reinstall with no remnants of the previous installation left over.