Quake problems on GeForce4

Hi all

I've just bought a new PC with a MSI nVidia GeForce4 MX440-T8X. I installed
Quake and Quake 3 but neither of them runs properly. In Quake 1 (GL Quake),
the display keeps freezing. When it freezes the sound loops three or four
times, before it all starts working again. This happens every 10-20 seconds.
In Quake 3, the display flickers heavily and some things on screen appear as
bright blue glitches. After a while, it throws an exception and a dialog box
appears saying something like "The instruction at "0x0044834f" attempted to
read protected memory". Then the game shuts down and when I get back to
Windows (XP), the display settings have gone haywire and I need to reboot to
fix it.

I've tried the latest drivers from MSI and nvidia. Neither made any
difference. WinQuake works fine by the way. It's just the GL versions that
won't work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:24:49 -0000, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "JohnL"
wrote :

Hi all

I've just bought a new PC with a MSI nVidia GeForce4 MX440-T8X. I installed
Quake and Quake 3 but neither of them runs properly. In Quake 1 (GL Quake),
the display keeps freezing. When it freezes the sound loops three or four
times, before it all starts working again. This happens every 10-20 seconds.
In Quake 3, the display flickers heavily and some things on screen appear as
bright blue glitches. After a while, it throws an exception and a dialog box
appears saying something like "The instruction at "0x0044834f" attempted to
read protected memory". Then the game shuts down and when I get back to
Windows (XP), the display settings have gone haywire and I need to reboot to
fix it.

I've tried the latest drivers from MSI and nvidia. Neither made any
difference. WinQuake works fine by the way. It's just the GL versions that
won't work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks



For both games check in the games folders for the opengl32.dll and
rename it.This will allow the system to use the Nvidia openGL drivers.
HTH



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Shep© wrote:

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:24:49 -0000, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "JohnL"
wrote :

Hi all

I've just bought a new PC with a MSI nVidia GeForce4 MX440-T8X. I
installed Quake and Quake 3 but neither of them runs properly. In Quake 1
(GL Quake), the display keeps freezing. When it freezes the sound loops
three or four times, before it all starts working again. This happens
every 10-20 seconds. In Quake 3, the display flickers heavily and some
things on screen appear as bright blue glitches. After a while, it throws
an exception and a dialog box appears saying something like "The
instruction at "0x0044834f" attempted to read protected memory". Then the
game shuts down and when I get back to Windows (XP), the display settings
have gone haywire and I need to reboot to fix it.

I've tried the latest drivers from MSI and nvidia. Neither made any
difference. WinQuake works fine by the way. It's just the GL versions that
won't work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks



For both games check in the games folders for the opengl32.dll and
rename it.This will allow the system to use the Nvidia openGL drivers.
HTH

Hi Shep

Neither folder has an opengl32.dll file.

Any ideas?

John

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:10:11 +0000, My brain dual boots Concious and
Subconcious but I never had a choice but then JohnL
wrote :

Shep© wrote:

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:24:49 -0000, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "JohnL"
wrote :

Hi all

I've just bought a new PC with a MSI nVidia GeForce4 MX440-T8X. I
installed Quake and Quake 3 but neither of them runs properly. In Quake 1
(GL Quake), the display keeps freezing. When it freezes the sound loops
three or four times, before it all starts working again. This happens
every 10-20 seconds. In Quake 3, the display flickers heavily and some
things on screen appear as bright blue glitches. After a while, it throws
an exception and a dialog box appears saying something like "The
instruction at "0x0044834f" attempted to read protected memory". Then the
game shuts down and when I get back to Windows (XP), the display settings
have gone haywire and I need to reboot to fix it.

I've tried the latest drivers from MSI and nvidia. Neither made any
difference. WinQuake works fine by the way. It's just the GL versions that
won't work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks



For both games check in the games folders for the opengl32.dll and
rename it.This will allow the system to use the Nvidia openGL drivers.
HTH

Hi Shep

Neither folder has an opengl32.dll file.

Any ideas?

John

Hmmm.In the original quake that file is installed by default,I know as
It's the main game I still play online(and still the best).
opengl32.dll
If it's not there than your install of Quake ain't right.
However you may have Opengl problems.If so download the
free,"Rivatuner",
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
and use it to go through all your normal settings as it has a hidden
registry checker,fixer.



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