Not sure what section this goes under so I put it here as a safe bet.
Alright, I recently upgraded from a dead Geforce 7600GS to an ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP.
Cleaned out the old drivers with Driver Sweeper and installed the latest AGP Catalyst drivers(which were unnecessarily hard to find, even doing a friggin google search for the drivers just turns up help topics instead of the download page).
So, I can play most games just fine like Mass Effect 2, Command & Conquer 3, Men of War: Assault Squad, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, etc. but I can't seem to play smaller indie titles like Cave Story+, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, Frozen Synapse, Defcon, and games that use idtech like Jedi Outcast and Quake 4.
The erroneous games give me errors saying "invalid OpenGL" or "can't intiliaze C++ visual runtimes"... even though I'm pretty sure I have both OpenGL and every version of the C++ visual runtimes installed thanks to Steam installing everything automatically before running the games.
I use Windows XP Home Edition with SP3, have 1.5gbs of ram, and have an AMD Athlon 2800+ 1.5ghz cpu.
I'm thinking I may have downloaded the wrong type of drivers for the GPU but I've tried older versions(from November) to no avail so I have no idea, I think a reformat may be needed but I'd rather not have to do that.
Alright, I recently upgraded from a dead Geforce 7600GS to an ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP.
Cleaned out the old drivers with Driver Sweeper and installed the latest AGP Catalyst drivers(which were unnecessarily hard to find, even doing a friggin google search for the drivers just turns up help topics instead of the download page).
So, I can play most games just fine like Mass Effect 2, Command & Conquer 3, Men of War: Assault Squad, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, etc. but I can't seem to play smaller indie titles like Cave Story+, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, Frozen Synapse, Defcon, and games that use idtech like Jedi Outcast and Quake 4.
The erroneous games give me errors saying "invalid OpenGL" or "can't intiliaze C++ visual runtimes"... even though I'm pretty sure I have both OpenGL and every version of the C++ visual runtimes installed thanks to Steam installing everything automatically before running the games.
I use Windows XP Home Edition with SP3, have 1.5gbs of ram, and have an AMD Athlon 2800+ 1.5ghz cpu.
I'm thinking I may have downloaded the wrong type of drivers for the GPU but I've tried older versions(from November) to no avail so I have no idea, I think a reformat may be needed but I'd rather not have to do that.