Frequently Asked Questions

For OpenGL hardware accelerated games to work correctly your video cards driver must include OpenGL support in addition to having a video card that supports OpenGL instructions. The great majority of cards support OpenGL, some integrated video chipsets and older video cards (made before 1998) may not or do but at very slow speeds.

The video drivers  (That are installed by default) do not support any form of hardware accelerated OpenGL, so even if your card does, games will fail to run until you install an updated driver from your video cards manufacturer.

The best part is that this should be a simple free update from your graphic card supplier.

Some steps to help you out:

1. Go to Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Display Properties (This direction will depend on your Windows version)

2. Click the Settings tab

3. Click the Advanced button

4. Click the Adapter tab

5. Now select the Update Driver button. I think it’s on this screen but you may have to click a Properties button here and then select the Driver tab.

6. Follow the options to select the graphics card driver from a list.

7. Choose your graphics card manufacturer (e.g. ATi) from the list on the list and then the model (e.g. ATi Rage 128 PCI) from the list on the right.

8. Follow the options to install the driver for the selected model. You may be prompted to insert the Windows 98 CD.

9. Reboot.

10. Go to Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Display Properties

11. Click the Settings tab

12. Click the Advanced button

13. Check that this screen now shows “(your monitor model) on (your graphics card model)” rather than “(your monitor model) on Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)”. If it does, you should now be able to select a higher screen resolution using the slider bar and a higher number of colours from the drop-down list.