Game crash at start : wglChoosePixelFormatARB problem

(kamui06) #1

Hi,
I got an ASUS G73.
I’ve updated my drivers for my ATI 5870, I’ve installed, disintalled and reinstalled the game, I tried to install ancient version of catalyst and I just can’t launch the game anymore, I get this error :

The OpenGL driver doesn’t support wglChoosePixelFormatARB

with this rapport:

------ Joblib unit testing starting ----
------ Joblib unit testing finished ----

------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pak000.sdpk2
Loaded pak001.sdpk2
Loaded pak002.sdpk2
Loaded zzzfrench000.sdpk2
Loaded zzzfrench001.sdpk2
Loaded zzzfrench002.sdpk2
Current search path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\6563824\22350\local/base
C:\Users\seb\AppData\Local\Splash Damage\Brink/base
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\brink/base
zzzfrench002.sdpk2
zzzfrench001.sdpk2
zzzfrench000.sdpk2
pak002.sdpk2
pak001.sdpk2
pak000.sdpk2
file system initialized.

Loaded 3780 manifest elements in 8 ms - 192Kb
Discarded 0 manifest elements
Max filename length: 0 characters
Brink 1.0.22696.46979 win-x86 May 10 2011 18:53:21
execing ‘brinkconfig.cfg’
couldn’t exec ‘autoexec.cfg’
Vendor: 1002 Device: 68A0
2562 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT
4 logical cores
2 physical cores
HT enabled
3952 MB System Memory
1024 MB Video Memory
Initializing performance queries
Winsock Initialized
Found interface: {3A616D88-6415-44EB-8892-3540ACADD16E} Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) - 0.0.0.0 NULL ip - skipped
Found interface: {DCCEED73-2204-4D57-9D45-CF17A7B4BA95} Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter - 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0
Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface
— Loading sequence: init —
sound index file ‘generated/preload/sound/pc/french/init.soundpreload’ is zero length
------- Initializing render context --------
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
…calling LoadLibrary( ‘wtsapi32.dll’ ): succeeded
…initializing Windows Terminal Server API
…registered window class
…registered fake window class
…calling LoadLibrary( ‘opengl32’ ): succeeded
…initializing QGL
X…WGL_ARB_create_context_profile not found
idFile_AsyncPermanent::Write: failed to write to c:\users\seb\appdata\local\splash damage\brink\base\diag.txt

FATAL ERROR: The OpenGL driver doesn’t support wglChoosePixelFormatARB

The OpenGL driver doesn’t support wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
…releasing DC
…resetting display
…shutting down QGL
…unloading OpenGL DLL
…unloading Windows Terminal Server API DLL

Is there something to do, to just be able to launch the game?

(Spyker) #2

I feel your pain. Do you know why? Because I have the same computer.

I hope that they will work on a patch to fix all this madness.

I was extremely looking forward to this game. And this… This happens.

Might as well just play Darkspore And Modern Warfare 2 and the other 34 games I have on my Laptop.

(kamui06) #3

[QUOTE=Spyker;302938]I feel your pain. Do you know why? Because I have the same computer.

I hope that they will work on a patch to fix all this madness.

I was extremely looking forward to this game. And this… This happens.

Might as well just play Darkspore And Modern Warfare 2 and the other 34 games I have on my Laptop.[/QUOTE]

Yep that’s hard to buy a laptop gamer thinking “Now I’m gona run every game that I want” and… NO.

But I’m gona try something, because I was able to run the game before I tried to update catalyst. For the moment even if I downgrade the drivers it’s still not working but I’m gona try to use an ancient save point and reinstall everything.

I’ll tell you if it’s working.

(kamui06) #4

GOOD NEWS!!!

It’s working fine for me.

I had restore point from the day I installed brink and directX so I used it and now everything is working fine!

The biggest change is from my drivers software, Now I got and old version from 2009, it’s this one :

Driver Packaging Version 8.683-091217a-092929C
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.984
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0716
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.9236
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2009.1217.1632.29627

Maybe it’s the solution for people having a G73.

Hope it will help you guys, now I go playing BRINK!!!