New video card, Armagetron wont start!

Ackirismo · Post by **Ackirismo** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:02 am

Hello everyone, I just purchased a nVIDIA GeForce fx 256mb card and I was like "Great, Now I can Play armegetron!" (Prior card was HORRIBLE.) Well I already had the card installed then I started Armagetron, And here is what poped up.

"Nvidia openGl Driver

Driver componet sizes Mismatch, Ok to keep going, Cancel to exit"

And I cant do anything from there.

Thanks in advanced guys!

Im running Windows Xp with 512 mb ram and an 80gig HD.

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:30 am

I'd say re-install or ditch windows, but I suppose you show a bit more faith in you OS...

now let's see:
have you de-installed all other graphics drivers ?
have you got the nesest driver version ?
did you get the driver off nvidia.com or windowsupdate ? (I don't trust windowsupdate)

I don't suppose this was very helpful, but who knows

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:03 am

That sounds more like an SDL issue than an Armagetron issue, but I guess we have no way of knowing. Do other 3D applications work correctly?

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:10 am

Tank Program wrote:Do other 3D applications work correctly?

Especially OpenGL-based ones, that would include Worms 3D

,
tuxracer ( http://tuxracer.sf.net ) , cube (a free 1st person shooter, http://cube.sf.net/ ) and
bzflag ( http://www.bzflag.org ), just to name a few. DirectX games (most windows games)
probably behave differently...

Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:16 am

Walking Tree wrote:I'd say re-install or ditch windows, but I suppose you show a bit more faith in you OS...

k · Post by k » Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:20 pm

Was Armagetron installed and running with the old video card? Maybe you could try clearing some entries in the var\user.cfg file to have Armagetron redetect your video card.

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Try clearing these entries (your card will of course be different).  I'm not sure if these are the right ones to clear.

GL_VENDOR    ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER    RADEON 9200 DDR x86/SSE2

Change to:

GL_VENDOR
GL_RENDERER

Or at worst, try uninstalling Arma, delete the var directory if it is not completely removed and reinstall.[/code]

microbus · Post by **microbus** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:55 pm

My guess is you'll need to update your VIA chipset drivers....
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:48 pm

try deleting user.cfg and re-run armagetron