OpenGL Initialization failure

[Treval]

Hello

I am having quite a nasty problem with my video drivers. It concerns the following game:
- Soldier Of Fortune 2

The game ran well in the past. I've played it a trillion times. But now, for some reason unknown to me, it chose to give me this error when I start the game:

"OpenGL Initialization Failure

OpenGL Initialization Failure. To play Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, please verify that your card is OpenGL compliant. If it is, please update to the latest video drivers. See the readme.txt for more details."

followed by the following console output:
http://users.telenet.be/treval/txt/OpenGLerror.txt

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I believe this is happening ever since I launched Xfire. I don't know if it's related to Xfire. On startup of Xfire, it 'searches for installed games'.

Also, lately when I change screen resolution, Windows says I have to reboot. Why is this? I've never had to reboot to simply change resolution. Might be my video drivers, I don't know.

I've had normal nVidia drivers for my card installed in the past. Then someone recommended the 'optimized drivers' from 3Dguru.com. So I did, I installed the optimized drivers.

Anyway, main thing is, every time I launch this game, I have to reinstall my optimized graphics drivers and reboot. This is really unpleasant, especially when you're in a clan and have deathmatches at certain times, like me.

I tried to download and install the latest nVidia drivers for my card, from the official nvidia website (www.nvidia.com), but no cigar. The game still gave me the same error.

However! (important)
When I reinstall the video drivers and reboot, the game runs fine for one or two times, but after the third time, blam, same error.

Someone told me that the game might be trying to find proper drivers, can't find them, overwrites my newer drivers, with its older drivers. Is that possible? Perhaps the games' error message is clearer.

Anyway I'm really stuck on this..


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Treval

p.s.: if anyone knows a link to a video driver cleaning tool? (to clean my system of the remnants of previous video driver installs. Might help)

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My specs:

Graphics card:
http://www.pointofview-online.com/d...?content_id=142

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
1 GB DDR RAM

Windows XP Professional SP2

[Calum]

Your link to the video card doesn't work, and 3DGuru.com takes me to a non-video card related page.
There are driver cleaning tools, but it's fairly easy to DIY.
Follow this page of the guide here to uninstall your old drivers and install the new ones.
Ad go to Control Panel - Display - Settings - Advanced - choose "Apply the new display settings without restarting".
That should fix your other problem.
I hope this helps.

[Treval]

http://www.guru3d.com/

My video card is
Point Of View nVidia GeForce 7300 GT

I'll check with the guides.

[Treval]

Funny enough "Apply new settings without restarting" was already selected all along...

[Calum]

OK, I read the site totally wrong, sorry.
Check the guide, it should help you out.
Let us know.

Funny enough "Apply new settings without restarting" was already selected all along...

Odd.
Maybe if you select a different one, then apply it, then select it again, and apply it, it may help.
Or the new drivers may fix it.

[Treval]

I've done and read the guide up to page 5 now. Do I really have to do and read all the rest? It's like 5-10 pages more I think.

I'm going to install DirectX now. And then, I'll reinstall my game.

Let's see if this works.


Cheers

[Treval]

The game works now.
Let us hope it does not fail again.

And I found something interesting regarding to my problem.
It seems to be a very common problem.

OpenGL solution

[patio]

I'm impressed a fix for Return to Castle Wolfenstien was able to fix you up.....whatever works right ?

 

[Treval]

Got the error again.

So yeah I went through the steps one by one.
And running my desktop at 16-bit before running the game solved the problem.

The in-game graphics are set to 32 bit though. ^^

Alright I'm finally relieved from this problem.

[Calum]

I've done and read the guide up to page 5 now. Do I really have to do and read all the rest? It's like 5-10 pages more I think.

I was just asking you to read the page linked to, which talks about uninstalling and reinstalling drivers.
You seem to have it sorted now anyway.