[jdulmage]

yes, it's me, it's jdulmage, back again...

anyways, in Windows 2000 when I try to run Soldier of Fortune, it just boots out of the game right away and says something like "GLimp_SwapBuffers()" or something stupid. I have Detenator 2 drivers installed and everything. What's going on??

Thanks

[Jester]

At least your system stays up. My system goes to a blue screen memory dump because NV4_disp caused some kind of fatal error.

[Shadow18]

To run Soldier of Fortune, I do believe you need to run it as a Power User, because it will not run under any other account for some odd reason

[peterro]

This is a OpenGL problem. Follow this instruction, and it should work! It did for me.

Windows 2000 & Detonator 2 OpenGL fix
[Comments] by Thomas McGuire @ 16:53
Those of you out there who are experiencing crashes in Opengl games such as Soldier of Fortune (e.g. GLimp_EndFrame() - SwapBuffers() failed!) after installing the Detonator 2 drivers for Windows 2000 will need to fix it using this procedure.
1. Click, Start, Run.
2. Type in regedit & hit Enter.
3. Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers]. Delete the RIVATNT subkey.
4. Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers] & make a New String Value entitled RIVATNT
& give it a value of nvoglnt.
Thanks to the nVidia newsgroup (unknown_error in particular) for mentioning the basic fix

_Update_ - Step 4 has changed! UT works in OpenGL


Also, if u update the game (v1.04, i think) you don't have to run it as a power user, u can run it as an administrator as well.
Next time, use the "search" button, this is all standing here already!


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[Black]

Quote:

Originally posted by Jester:
[b]At least your system stays up. My system goes to a blue screen memory dump because NV4_disp caused some kind of fatal error.

I had the same with the 5.22 and up drivers.
I installed the 5.17 drivers and the problem has gone.
I had to really remove the 5.22 drivers (set system to default MS driver, reboot, remove NVidia 5.22 driver, reboot, install Nvidia 5.17 driver). Just updating the current driver with a single reboot didn't work.

[canonjon]

just wanted too report that SOF has that error with the 5.22, 5.25, 5.30 but the fix works on all of them...........

w2k pro
TNT2 U
256 ram
PII 450

[canonjon]

WOW.........Sof works with the W2k-5.32 drivers with out the regedit fix.......cool

W2k pro. swe.
TNT 2 U with 5.32
256 mb ram
PII 450

[bucky]