OpenGL problems

[shyguy]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with my OpenGL games locking up my system shortly after I start a game.

My system:

Asus P2B-LS, 1011 bios
Intel P2-400, 128MB SDRAM
G400MAX 32MB, latest bios, ver. 5.50 drivers
Windows 98 SE, Direct X 7.0a
(nothing overclocked)

Whenever I go into Quake/Quake2/Halflife, shortly after I do timedemo or Start New Game, it'll lock up (if sound is on, it'll keep looping, like a record player). No keyboard / mouse response, forcing a reboot.

I've had this problem for awhile now, from the initial out-of-box release of the Powerdesk drivers to the most current beta release, and everything in between. I've even tried the TurboGL drivers.

Now this problem does not occur if I do a fresh install of 98SE and any of the above drivers. But several weeks later, any OpenGL game will once again be unplayable.

I'm pretty sure I'm not installing anything that will affect OpenGL, like Adobe products, Norton Utlities, other games.

I've tried fiddling with bios settings (video caching, video cache mode, etc). I've done system checks via Norton. Basically I'm at a loss as to what I can do to resolve this besides reinstalling 98SE every 2 weeks.

[HollyBerri]

Ooooh.... I wouldn't be so sure about Norton Utilities... Back in the 3.1 days, it was a lifesaver, but ever since the version for Win98, I've had <u>nothing</u> but problems....[list=1][*]First, I tried the demo. Didn't much like all those dratted monitors and crap, and it looked like a resource hog to me. So I went to uninstall... but the uninstall log was screwed, and I couldn't. Well, that happens, just figured it was a slightly bad install, or a corrupt file from the demo CD. By the time all was said and done with that episode, I had tried the demo from 2 different CDs and d/l-ed from Norton's site... all had the same problem. I finally had to get Norton Uninstall Deluxe on the cheap to get rid of it.[*] Then, last month, I read that I should move my swapfile to the front of my HD and that the Norton defrag utility could do this. By this time they were up to NU2K, so I hoped that it would work better. So I d/l-ed the demo, and all went well. So well, in fact, that I decided to keep the demo for the full 30 days. My mistake.

After a (totally routine) Netscape crash-and-reboot, NU under DOS found the cache to be corrupt. Told NU to fix it. My mistake. When I got to Windows, it couldn't find any of my Startup Folder programs... because the DOS table for drive D: (thank heaven for drive partitions) was corrupt... and, errr, no, DD couldn't fix it.

I was able to get most of my crucial data off the drive before a crash occurred on drive C: a few days later, and NU trashed that as well...necessitating the purchase of a new HDD.[/list=a]

So, as I said, I would not be so confident that NU (in particular) is not somehow trashing your OGL system files.

Is there any procedure scheduled to occur every couple of weeks?

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Holly

[burre burrito]

Im also having this problem with HL, I dont know about Q and Q2 since i dont play them a lot. Whenever i run HL and keep running it for a while it crashes forcing a hard reboot... and its sometimes after 5 minutes, and sometimes after 2 hours, but mostly after about 30 minutes. This is very anoying and i have no clue whatsoever what could be wrong. i have never ever used any norton products, and the problem havent stoped even with different versions of PD (anything from the shiping version to the 5.5 or so), tried Win98 and 98 SE (use regular 98 now since SE crashed a lot more).
i have almost stoped playing HL since it crashes so much and since i play UT a lot, but it bugs me...

P2 350, 96 RAM (soon 160), G400 32 DH, some gigabyte mobo, 17 gb ibm hd.

oops.. forgot.. i have DirectX 7.0 and i have nothing overclocked

[This message has been edited by burre burrito (edited 10 February 2000).]