Technical question

I have a game called "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force" and I play it with the RPG-X mod. I installed the latest driver for my video card and I wasn't able to play. I rolled back to an older driver and then OpenGL wouldn't work. So I *tried* to uninstall the driver all together and just run the Windows standard driver, and apparently I still have the same problem (but somehow I get the feeling the ATI driver didn't uninstall, considering the device is still listed in the Device Manager, which it wasn't the first time I actually deleted the ATI drivers).

Any techy folks around here know about this kind of thing?

-DOS forever

 

http://www.ubergames.org/projects/rpg-x/

It's a modification that makes the game into a roleplaying game instead of a shooter.

And yes, per your suggestion, I just tried to start the HoloMatch (multiplayer) part of the game without it, and still got the low frame rates. I'd try single player mode too, but that won't start at all.

I "uninstalled" the ATI driver I had on it, and now I'm back to the status quo - the game runs, but with terrible FPS (like 15).

-DOS forever

 

Uninstalling/using default windows=software opengl, its "opengl driver extension limit" bug when length of returned gl_extension string longer than buffer in game(at 1.1 beginning <255 symbols, thats usually means limit), in nvidia drivers there is some settings option for every exe/global called opengl extensions limit , for ati - try older like 8.53 drivers or newer, or tweakers. Universal method - use gldirect as warpper, speed doesnt matters for new hardware.

 

I really don't get what you mean here. As to my driver, I'm pretty sure the 9.5 version used to work with this game. I'm not entirely sure what's going on - when I install 9.5 the OpenGL won't work, when I use something else I get very low FPS.

I will try removing all drivers and see what happens with the Windows stock driver. If that works (with normal FPS), then I'll know it's just something to do with ATI's drivers.

It's all very odd.

-DOS forever

 

Sometimes, sometimes not, cant detect where was change. Built-in doesnt have opengl part, always, sometimes new ati/nvidia drivers from windows update gets full catalyst/forceware suite with full support and control panel.

 

Yeah. The strange thing is, when I install the latest drivers, it causes this game to go really slow, and I don't understand why.

-DOS forever

 

=> you did it wrong (c) and software opengl was used.

 

I did what wrong? Installed the driver wrong you mean?

-DOS forever