Nexiuz Not Loading WINXP

[tkdan235]

System Specs:
P4 2.8
2GB DDR2
ATI X800

My computer runs great with a variety of games, however with Nexiuz I keep having the same problem. I suspected it was winxp so I did a reinstall and sure enough I am having the same problem.

What happens is I launch Nexiuz and it changes the resolution on the computer and then just sits there. While it sits there I can just look at my desktop in that lower resolution. I will alt-tab out and back to nexiuz, and the menu music will play. I move the mouse around and I can hear it going over options in the menu. During this I can still only view my desktop at this lower resolution. All I can do from there is ctrl-alt-del and force quit nexiuz.

Any ideas? Need any more info? Thank you for your time!

[FruitieX]

ATI ...

Oh wait, are you sure you have the drivers installed?

[Urmel]

Again it would be so good if Nexuiz wouldn't start fullscreened by default

Have a look at the \data folder in Nexuiz, if you're lucky, you'll find a file config.cfg. If you don't find it, just create a txt file and rename it to config.cfg. Open it with WordPad. Add the line vid_fullscreen "0", save and close the file. Then start Nexuiz again and have a look if some error message or whatever pops up...

What you could do before is get sure that the color depth of your desktop is set to 32bit. 16-bit ain't a problem in general, but with ATI drivers you can never be sure...

[esteel]

have you reinstalled the ATI drivers from their homepage after reinstalling? the drivers coming with XP can't do opengl which Nexuiz uses..

[Urmel]

I suppose he uses at least some ATI drivers, other games wouldn't run very well otherwise...

[KadaverJack]

I suppose he uses at least some ATI drivers, other games wouldn't run very well otherwise...

But other games might not need OpenGL...

[Urmel]

ATI cards (and Nvidias as well iirc) don't even run the windows desktop well without drivers. I'm sure he's got drivers installed

[KadaverJack]

ATI cards (and Nvidias as well iirc) don't even run the windows desktop well without drivers. I'm sure he's got drivers installed

Reread esteel's post carefully
His point wasn't that no drivers are installed, it was that the windoze update version of the ati driver might be installed, which lacks OpenGL support.

[Urmel]

it was that the windoze update version of the ati driver might be installed, which lacks OpenGL support.

Tbh I never had the crazy idea to look for ANY drivers on the M$ Update site except maybe a M$ Sidewinder Joystick

[tkdan235]

Again it would be so good if Nexuiz wouldn't start fullscreened by default

Have a look at the \data folder in Nexuiz, if you're lucky, you'll find a file config.cfg. If you don't find it, just create a txt file and rename it to config.cfg. Open it with WordPad. Add the line vid_fullscreen "0", save and close the file. Then start Nexuiz again and have a look if some error message or whatever pops up...

What you could do before is get sure that the color depth of your desktop is set to 32bit. 16-bit ain't a problem in general, but with ATI drivers you can never be sure...

I went in and edited the config file as you requested. When I started the game it started in a smaller window but without a menu. Sound was playing and I could hear the menu items again. See screenshot:
http://www.tkdan.com/tmp/ss.JPG
(screen shot is kinda crazy from my dual monitor setup. but you can see what it is doing.)

I have the latest ATI drivers installed as well as the latest drivers for the rest of the system. Games such as battlefield 2 and halflife 2 work fine without any problems.

Any more ideas? Thanks for the responses![/img]