No OpenGL on valve games?!?!

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » September 3rd, 2006, 17:31

Ok, so I went and bought a nice little package of games off of Steam yesterday and when I try to set up the video it keeps saying my video card does not support OpenGL. I have a ATI FireGL X-2 256T, it is a workstation card I know, and not a gaming card, but I know it has OpenGL. I've had it set up for games before. Any idea why it's being really gey now?

If you need to know other sys specs, I'm running as follows:
Windows XP pro SP2
Dual AMD Athlon MP2600+ (2.0 GHz)
1 gig wintec DDR PC2100 Reg ECC ram
ATI FireGL X2 APG Pro
Tyan S2466N-4M motherboard
and 2 80gig Seagate Barracuda HDs

Post by **deject** » September 3rd, 2006, 17:50

It's probably a driver problem, but why would you use OpenGL anyways? Even in the Half-Life 1 engine, there isn't that much of a difference.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 3rd, 2006, 17:50

Drivers up to date?

and i thought steam was all direct-x flavour? (at least the source engine is)

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » September 3rd, 2006, 17:52

Post by **deject** » September 3rd, 2006, 17:53

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Drivers up to date?

and i thought steam was all direct-x flavour? (at least the source engine is)

That's why I'm guessing he's playing HL 1 engine games.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » September 3rd, 2006, 18:02

Heh, I'm just now getting into PC fps games like this. The only games I really play are things like FFXI and eve, I got HL1 and 2 and some of the CS games to play. Had a hacked copy of CS:S and thought it was fun and wanted to try something new and maybe even get owned by a few of you.

So I should not be using OpenGL or D3D? For these games? Right now I've been using D3D at 1280x1024. I figure it would be better then software.

And yes, I keep all my drivers up to date.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 3rd, 2006, 18:17

Probably just a weirdery given the nature of that card.

D3D/Direct X is ideal, so stick to using that

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » September 3rd, 2006, 18:19

Ok, thanks for the help.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 3rd, 2006, 19:28

It's all D3D these days, OpenGL used to be significantly better (than D3D) on the 3dfx cards, while ATi typically had only D3D. GeForce cards still have OpenGL support as a legacy. In practice on modern cards, they are almost indistinguishable.