How about you change the 'GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem' error to say something more useful?
Even if its just a link to a page here, or a text file in the install, that has links to all the graphics card driver websites, and info etc.
How many people must give up just because of this error?
Do you mean that the message should contain the reason(s) why GLW_StartOpenGL() failed, if possible? Or just a list of places to look for help?
The reason, why the OpenGL subsystem cannot be loaded is not always, because your graphic card drivers are not installed. It can have multiple reasons.
Nobody will stop you from rewriting the error messages!
Quote from: DASPRiDThe reason, why the OpenGL subsystem cannot be loaded is not always, because your graphic card drivers are not installed. It can have multiple reasons.
But 99% of the time its graphics drivers.
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Nobody will stop you from rewriting the error messages!
I doubt its a hard patch to write.
The question is what to write?
I doubt you can stick in a large amount of text there, and for lots of windows people, they will never run it in the console.
Maybe what we need more is a troubleshooting file in the default install, thet tells them to run under the console, and then has a list of common errors?
Either way, deciding what to make it say is probably harder than making it say it.
if you get a opengl error the console pops up after trem fails
wft are you talkin bout
tremulous cant start
send a bug report to tremulous.net
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"Update your drivers, dumbass!"
the not installed drivers should tell you the problem
ERR101: no drivers installed
solve the mistery of the paradox :wink:
"If you can't install graphics card drivers, you are too dump to play this game. Get lost campers! :E"