[GenericCorvette]

My old Geforce FX5500 spontaneously scorched itself. A Radeon 9600 LE took its place, and it runs Source-engine games great.
Problem: FreeSpace 2 and my new card do not like each other.


A quick check in the common errors thread found a match for this:


Solution 1:


Failed.


Solution 2:


I installed the latest drivers almost first thing after making sure the card functions without self-explosion.
I finally can achieve over 30 FPS in the Source Engine without staring at the sky.
FreeSpace 2 just throws that error.

I found I could start the game by switching to Direct3d in 3.6.9 but my mod requires newer features. No playtesting yet, but I doubt using a barely-supported video mode can be a good thing.

Help.

[Wanderer]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,56279.0.html

"Unable to get proper pixel format for OpenGL W32!"

    * Make sure that you have (the newest) graphics card drivers and chipset drivers installed.
    * Make sure that you're using 32-bit colours for both your desktop and the game itself (can be changed from the Launcher's Video tab).

[GenericCorvette]

Am I missing something here?

[Wanderer]

Hmm.. You could try getting new launcher 5.5c or later, getting fresh build. Then running debug and posting the log here (assuming it didn't help)

[GenericCorvette]

Got Launcher 5.5d. Tried two recent builds. No luck so far.

Here's the latest log:

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==========================================================================
DEBUG SPEW: No debug_filter.cfg found, so only general, error, and warning
categories can be shown and no debug_filter.cfg info will be saved.
==========================================================================
FreeSpace version: 3.6.10
Passed cmdline options:
  -spec_exp 32.0
  -ogl_spec 80
  -spec_static 5.0
  -spec_point 0.6
  -spec_tube 4.0
  -ambient_factor 0.0
  -glow
  -nomotiondebris
  -spec
  -no_vsync
  -ballistic_gauge
  -dualscanlines
  -orbradar
  -rearm_timer
  -targetinfo
  -ship_choice_3d
  -warp_flash
Building file index...
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\Homesick.vp' with a checksum of 0xcb4b82bb
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\mission_package.vp' with a checksum of 0x741d36e3
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\multi-mission-pack.vp' with a checksum of 0x377695e0
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\multi-voice-pack.vp' with a checksum of 0xd50e7442
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\Root_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0xce10d76c
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\smarty_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0xddeb3b1e
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\sparky_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0x164fe65a
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\sparky_hi_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0xa11d56f1
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\stu_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0xd77da83a
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango1_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0x4c25221e
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango2_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0x86920b82
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango3_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0x705e8d71
Found root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\warble_fs2.vp' with a checksum of 0xd85c305d
Searching root 'G:\program files\freespace2\' ... 201 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\Homesick.vp' ... 41 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\mission_package.vp' ... 380 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\multi-mission-pack.vp' ... 110 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\multi-voice-pack.vp' ... 307 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\Root_fs2.vp' ... 157 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\smarty_fs2.vp' ... 10 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\sparky_fs2.vp' ... 3027 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\sparky_hi_fs2.vp' ... 1337 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\stu_fs2.vp' ... 2355 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango1_fs2.vp' ... 32 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango2_fs2.vp' ... 15 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\tango3_fs2.vp' ... 10 files
Searching root pack 'G:\program files\freespace2\warble_fs2.vp' ... 52 files
Found 14 roots and 8034 files.
AutoLang: Language auto-detection successful...
Setting language to English
Initializing OpenAL...
  Using 'Generic Software' as OpenAL sound device...
  OpenAL Vendor     : Creative Labs Inc.
  OpenAL Renderer   : Software
  OpenAL Version    : 1.1

... OpenAL successfully initialized!
Failed to init speech
Initializing OpenGL graphics device at 1024x768 with 32-bit color...
  Initializing WGL...
ERROR: Unable to initialize display device!

File: gropengl.cpp
Line: 2970
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 0075a30d()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00759bd2()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00729b53()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00736a99()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00736e0e()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00c7d256()
    fs2_open_3_6_10d-20080818_CHIEF_4758.exe 00c7d0df()
    kernel32.dll 7c816fd7()


[FUBAR-BDHR]

First Homesick shouldn't even be in the FS2 directory. 

Did you remove all the drivers for the old video card and take it out of the device manager?

[Jeff Vader]

In addition to Homesick, what is "mission_package.vp"? I don't think I've seen that before. Never mind, I think I found out. Still, mission_package.vp should also be in its own mod folder instead of \freespace2\.

GenericCorvette, do us a service: download and run GPU-Z (link in my signature), then tell us what it says. Actually, first it will say that the program is already up to date, but that's not what we want to know. Click Ok and take screencaptures of the GPU-Z window itself.

[Zacam]

Also, for a card as old as the 9600...the latest are not the greatest. Google for the Catalyst 4.12 drivers (Softpedia should have a set). Architecture wise, they are the best that hardware is going to support. If you cannot find them, I will host them up for you.

Also, you can probably add "Enable Glow Maps" (-glow), "Enable Environment Maps" (-env). You wont (probably) be able to use "Enable Normal Maps" (-normal) however.

[Jeff Vader]

Mama's computer has a Radeon 9600 and it has worked sufficiently well with Cataclysm 8.something. Not the newest, maybe a few months old.

[Wobble73]

Try setting up the card within the retail launcher first. That was the solution I found when I recently upgraded to vista and pointed it at my old hard that stores FreeSpace SCP. I think it needs to set up registry details or something!