I recently had to re-install windows xp due to a systems crash. The only remaining problem is when I try to play a video game I recieve the following error message: GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem. What does this mean and how can I fix this since my games worked fine before the crash. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

Hi, it sounds like you need to grab the latest driver for your graphics card. This message relates to ancient 3DFX cards. Install the latest driver and let us know what happens.

Hengis is right...
OpenGL stands for Open Glide...which was a...driver...of sorts. It ran along side todays more modern Direct 3D.

However, OpenGL was unofficially discontinued when 3DFX was bought out by nVidia. Infact, the last game that everyone will know of that uses this method of graphics rendering, is Counter-Strike (pre-steam).

nVidia never officially supported any OpenGL games...such as Quake1...there was a mode for quake called GLQuake, which utilised the 3d cards to their full extent, but many people with Geforce2's (which is where nvidia really started to push into the gaming market) couldn't play it without a certain patch, or .DLL file in the game directory.


Why was i rambling? I don't know...it was pointless..*shrug*...how'd the drivers go?