New vid card, now Quake 3 won't play...

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Noozer

I just moved from an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO to an eVGA NVidia 6600 GT. I was
careful to completely uninstall the ATI drivers and run the ATI cleanup tool
before installing the 6600 & latest NVidea drivers.

Now, when I try to play a game of Quake 3 I recieve an "FS_FOpen FileRead:
NULL 'file' parameter passed" error message in the Q3 console.

My UT works fine. DXDIAG passes the video tests.

I'm assuming that this is an OpenGL issue, but don't know what to do next.

Ideas???
 
Try downloading Driver Cleaner Pro (free).
Download latest NVidia drivers, don't execute
Remove NVidia drivers you installed
Run Driver Cleaner Pro, identifying ATI and NVidia graphics drivers (if your
computer chipset is NVidia, make sure you don't remove the chipset driver)
Install new NVidia drivers.

Fitz
 
Noozer said:
I just moved from an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO to an eVGA NVidia 6600 GT. I was
careful to completely uninstall the ATI drivers and run the ATI cleanup tool
before installing the 6600 & latest NVidea drivers.

Now, when I try to play a game of Quake 3 I recieve an "FS_FOpen FileRead:
NULL 'file' parameter passed" error message in the Q3 console.

My UT works fine. DXDIAG passes the video tests.

I'm assuming that this is an OpenGL issue, but don't know what to do next.
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If it was the lack of OpenGL support in your drivers (which occurs when the
drivers are from Microsoft and not the chipset manufacturer), you would have
gotten the "GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem" on your
loading screen.

Jon
 
I would guess that Quake 3 has a configuration file(s) that might still
think you have an ATI or ATI like features. Either try blowing out that
configuration or try uninstalling Quake 3 and reinstalling it.
 
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