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    What do I have to do to make OpenGL work under Win2k?

    Nothing in OpenGL works for me, so what do I have to do? I don't even wanna play Quake, I just want OpenGL screensavers to work. Do I have to sell my soul, chant, sacrifice small animals to Satan, or what? Even under Win98SE, OpenGL screensavers don't work. I know that a lot of em aren't written by brilliant programmers, but NONE of em seem to work. What am I missing?

    The Rock
    Bart
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    OpenGL screensavers are broken with the current Win2k drivers for the G400. The next set of drivers will fix this, but even then the OpenGL screensavers won't be hardware accelerated.

    90% of systems out there won't accelerate the OpenGL Screensavers, no matter what video card you use. It's just the way they're written. TNT's don't accelerate them, neither to Voodoo3's. *shrug*

    - Gurm

    BTW, I'm referring mostly to the MICROSOFT OpenGL screensavers. If other people's OGL screensavers aren't working, you have a hardware problem (or you upgraded from Win98 or something equally foolish).

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    • #3
      I'm talking about pretty ones, not MS ones. And I'm running a dual boot between Win98SE and Win2k build 2195, and they don't work under either. Both OSes were installed on freshly formatted HD's, and weren't upgraded from earlier copies of Win95 (I DO have half a brain). These screensavers seem to work for everyone else under 98, so why not us G400 users? OpenGL games play fine, but the purty screensavers are borked (every OpenGL one I tried, and there's quite a few). This aint no hardware problem I don't think, since my hardware is all brand-name and working great EXCEPT for this one tiny issue. That's why I dont get it. Good hardware, fresh installs, and still no go. Here's the hardware:

      P3 450 NOT overclocked
      128 megs SDRAM
      Asus P2B board with latest bios
      Matrox G400 32meg single head
      SB Live
      Modem Blaster 56k
      Maxtor Diamondmax 17.2G HD
      Fujitsu 6.4G HD
      32x Panasonic CDROM
      Ricoh 4x4x20 EIDE toaster

      It's not a big deal, but it still irks me that something that SHOULD work DOESN'T. I'm not whining about Matrox since I love the card and the drivers kick ass, but I just wanna know why these OpenGL screensavers don't work.

      The Rock
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      • #4
        Do OpenGL games work OK?

        - Gurm

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        • #5
          Gurm, am I gonna have to take that broomstick away from you, and use it on you?
          Read TheRock's last post again

          "OpenGL games play fine, but the purty screensavers are borked"

          TheRock - OGL screensavers have always been buggy, but I have been able to run several I have tried. The only suggestion I can think of is to make sure you are in 16 or 32 bit color. 24bit+ OGL= bad. Besides, you should be running Seti@home as your screensaver, so we can get team MURC up higher on the list
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          • #6
            Wow, that must have been "Bad Ash". I'm "Good Ash", and I can read Rock's post. Sorry! Umm... hmm... lemme think about this now.

            - Gurm

            P.S. Is your system set for ACPI? If not, you may need to reinstall with ACPI turned on (force in txtsetup.sif) to make everything happy.

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            I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
            If only life were as easy as you
            I would still get screwed

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            • #7
              I usually run in 32bit color, so maybe I'll try 16bit and see what happens. I haven't tested under Win98SE lately. Since I got Win2k, I don't wanna go back.

              Gurm:

              ACPI eh? Funny thing about that is I'm having shutdown problems with Win2k now. If I'm logged in as Administrator, Win2k won't shut down or restart properly; it just goes to a blue screen and my HD's power down. I checked all the power options and hibernate isn't enabled, so I figure I screwed up the administrator profile somehow. If I log in as a restricted user, it works fine. My NT admin skills are rusty.

              Kruzin:

              WHAT the hell is this Seti@home??? I've seen several people mention it and I have ZERO clue what it is. Fill me in.


              The Rock
              Bart

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              • #8
                SETI = Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

                Computers all ovet the world are using their wasted processor cycles to analize radio signals from deep space. Check MURC's front page (by the little pic of the alien) for details...

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                • #9
                  Rock,

                  Check your device manager, and see if you have the device "Windows ACPI Something-or-other" in "System Devices". If not, you don't have ACPI, and you need to reinstall your system with ACPI forced.

                  - Gurm

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                  Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.
                  The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                  I'm the least you could do
                  If only life were as easy as you
                  I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                  If only life were as easy as you
                  I would still get screwed

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                  • #10
                    Gurm:

                    I have "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System" and "ACPI Fixed Feature Button" listed in device manager. I don't get why it only happens on admin accounts and not for normal user accounts. But when I first got 2000, I was into every damn control panel app there is, so I musta borked something. No big deal; I'll live.

                    The Rock
                    Bart

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