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General => Feedback => Topic started by: David on June 20, 2007, 03:10:46 am

Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: David on June 20, 2007, 03:10:46 am: 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?
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: Taiyo.uk on June 20, 2007, 03:56:15 am: 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?
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: DASPRiD on June 20, 2007, 10:19:36 am: 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.
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: Lava Croft on June 20, 2007, 01:36:52 pm: Nobody will stop you from rewriting the error messages!
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: David on June 20, 2007, 03:12:02 pm: Quote from: "DASPRiD"
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.

But 99% of the time its graphics drivers.

Quote from: "Lava Croft"

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.
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: n00b pl0x on June 21, 2007, 12:30:30 am: if you get a opengl error the console pops up after trem fails

wft are you talkin bout
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: .f0rqu3 on June 21, 2007, 12:46:29 am: tremulous cant start
send a bug report to tremulous.net
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Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: Odin on June 21, 2007, 05:26:00 am: "Update your drivers, dumbass!"
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: /dev/humancontroller on July 13, 2007, 09:47:09 pm: the not installed drivers should tell you the problem
ERR101: no drivers installed
solve the mistery of the paradox :wink:
Title: A sensible suggestion for once.
Post by: Somethief on July 13, 2007, 09:49:37 pm: "If you can't install graphics card drivers, you are too dump to play this game. Get lost campers! :E"