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« on: January 13, 2009, 01:41:15 PM »
I've been trying the Windows 7 Beta. It turns out it doesn't have OpenGL included in it, and thus I can't play Open Arena. Any idea how to get it installed?
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2009, 02:26:31 PM »
From http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=2419.msg20854#msg20854

Quote from: MaxxPro
I have solved my problem. On Windows 7 OpenGL libraries looks

..\windows\system32\glu32.dll
..\windows\system32\opengl32.dll

i renamed this libraries to glu.dll and opengl.dll

... so you may copy these two files to keep them under 2 different names.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2009, 03:34:21 PM »
Graphics card might have an influence. A Google search shows that AMD's catalyst drivers does not yet support OpenGL in 64 bit Windows 7 and some special 32 bit configurations.

From the release notes for Win 7 Catalyst 8.12 Preview Driver Package:
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Open GL is not supported under Windows 7 - 64 bit editions.
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 08:08:11 AM »
Im having almost same problem.

My specs:
pentium dual e2160
4gb ram
gf8600gt
gigabyte ds3l p31
Windows 7 64bit

After fresh installation - openarena worked 100% problems free. Almost perfect. Then i decided to change drivers (for sacred2) to newest possible from nvidia page - vista 64bit version. All worked - programs, games, Sacred2 and even OpenArena BUT...
OpenArena has problem that makes unplayable. Screen flashes more or less like its refresh rate wrong. r_refreshrate (or how it goes) do not work (when i change to my LCD's one). Switching back to Windows 7 default drivers (from Windows Update) - BOOM. OpenArena works.

Now i installed newest 185.20 beta drivers for windows 7 and... still same problem.

Is it possible that this drivers do not support OpenGL ? Or smth ?


I renemed glu32 and opengl32 to GLU and OPENGL, also copied it - so i have GLU and GLU32, OPENGL, OPENGL32.
Still doesnt work.
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2009, 09:34:12 AM »
Windows 7 is still in early development so don't expect much to work and remember not to install it on a production machine.
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2010, 12:33:34 AM »
See

http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=3584.msg30637#msg30637

For a potential fix.
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