Radeon VE 32MB && OpenGL?

Hey guys, i have a slight problem. My dual monitor works, my windows display works, and my Direct3D works, awsome, but i am having openGL problems.

Anytime i load a game based on opengl (ie half-life, a time to kill, etc), the game just crashes. My opengl programs don't work either, the spining triangle just shows up as a triangle, don't move, etc.

At first i thought maybe my card was overheating, even at standard clock settings, so i gave it a HUGE orb fan. Still didn't fix the problem, so i'm convinced its the drivers. The guy who sold it to me, a good buddy i trust, swears he ran opengl games with it, and i remember him using it with HL oepngl before, but he says its the same drives.

I can't find a GOOD set of drivers that aren't ATI's to save my life. Right now i am using Omega XP. I'm going to go download the ATI version (i hope), does anyone have this card/problem?

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Originally posted by RoD
Hey guys, i have a slight problem. My dual monitor works, my windows display works, and my Direct3D works, awsome, but i am having openGL problems.

Anytime i load a game based on opengl (ie half-life, a time to kill, etc), the game just crashes. My opengl programs don't work either, the spining triangle just shows up as a triangle, don't move, etc.

At first i thought maybe my card was overheating, even at standard clock settings, so i gave it a HUGE orb fan. Still didn't fix the problem, so i'm convinced its the drivers. The guy who sold it to me, a good buddy i trust, swears he ran opengl games with it, and i remember him using it with HL oepngl before, but he says its the same drives.

I can't find a GOOD set of drivers that aren't ATI's to save my life. Right now i am using Omega XP. I'm going to go download the ATI version (i hope), does anyone have this card/problem?

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So OpenGL doesn't work right? And you program with OpenGL?
You're ####ed! Haha, Did it ever worked right? Driver switch!

This is the first set of drivers i ever used (in reference to the original post) and they never worked for opengl for some reason.

Now with the ATI offical drivers i've moved up a little bit. My opengl VC++ progs run better than ever....but HL is still messed up, but not as much. Before HL would crash, now it makes it into the game but the controls are wrong (ie my left mouse button and jump and such don't work, but right mouse button fires as usual), and the video is messed up. This happens on every HL attempt running opengl @ any res.

heres the Half-Life SS:

hmm
perhaps the version of opengl that that card can interpret (cause of drivers etc i don't remember if it works with those entirely or if it's all at the hardware level) is older than what the game uses......weird, how olds that car, sounded old to me.

Barely a year old, theres no way its older than HL :P I can see why the 32MB would make it sound old, but i forgot to add the "DDR" after the 32MB when i made the title.

The full name is Radeon VE 32MB DDR, its based on the Radeon 7000 chip.

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I imagine the things we'll do
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No one like you

wtf.....i love you too.......ok moving on

heres a shot of its prop screen.

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Originally posted by Eibro
Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man who needs love
I miss you since I've been away
Babe, it wasn't easy to leave you alone
It's getting harder each time that I go
If I had the choice, I would stay

There's no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

No one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

Girl, there are really no words strong enough
To describe all my longing for love
I don't want my feelings restrained
Ooh, babe, I just need you like never before
Just imagine you'd come through this door
You'd take all my sorrow away

There's no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

No one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

No one like you

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Riiiiiight, okeeeee.....ehm? HELP!

Never liked radeon anyway, Too unreliable......

I love the card, its got to be something really lame for this too. I wonder if the new pc will fix it, should only be a few days now before its done.

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Originally posted by RoD
should only be a few days now before its done.

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Hmm, I heard that before;)
Your Videocard seems old, Tried old drivers yet?

the Vid card was made in 2002. Its newer than the V5 and the V5 handled everything fine, and there aren't any old drivers, theres these and the omega aftermarkets i had.

>>Hmm, I heard that before

Its the case thats holding me up. Should be here tommorow or monday.

just because it was made in 2002 doesn't mean it's based off of 2002 hardware. If I went and bought a new card based off of GeForce 2, it still is GeForce 2. You said it is based off Radeon 7000? Well the Radeon 7000 is pretty old.

Its not nearly as old as HL, and it has ran HL before, so thats obviously NOT the problem.

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Originally posted by RoD
Its not nearly as old as HL

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I'm not going to tell you how old Half Life's engine is, But trust
me ITS OLD.

It's more than five years i know that. This problem is really ........ing me off, i can't even find anyone else thats experiencing it.

Half Life's engine is older than 8 years:p
Nobody here probably owns a radeon.

I know but i mean even at overclocker sites, all theirs run fine....my case needs to be here today or i'll be ........ed off.

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Originally posted by RoD
I know but i mean even at overclocker sites, all theirs run fine....my case needs to be here today or i'll be ........ed off.

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Yeah, Well, You need to have expirience with Radeons to get
them to work right. NVidia's drivers are goddamn 7331 so you
won't expirience any trouble with them. Is this Radeon your NEW
videocard?

Yea its the one i got to replace the V5

howdy,
this thread has some links maybe one of them will help.

M.R.

thnx

I don't know what to tell you man, i've got a all-in-wonder 128pro and that ran it just fine....how are you for ram? Cause that could mess with games big time if you've fried a chip, do other games run funky as well?