By the way, the reason that OpenGL did not work on his Voodoo card is that OpenGL does not work on Voodoo cards.  Voodoo cards used Glide.

To summarize, OpenGL = NOT FOR VOODOO.

And no, wrappers wont work, wrappers are retarded.

Originally posted by Hanali
I went through these forums for over an hour last night befeore I even posted my problem.

You went through the forum for that long and didn\'t happen to see this same thread reiterated a thousand times?  Wow.  In that case, I\'d have to say that the program really is working, you just can\'t see it.  Try moving closer to the monitor.  Went through the forum for an hour my ass.

As the heading of this forum states Technical Help which is why I posted my problem thinking maybe something technical I may have overlooked caused my problem,

Something technical did cause your problem.  And ten thousand technical answers have already solved it on this board.

But I can obviously see that this place is most likely full of narrowminded people who have truly no concept of what helping others means without being rude and condescending.

Rude?  Nah.  Pointed out the obvious, man, that\'s all I did.  Condiscending?  Sure.  Would you be condiscending if someone asked you the same question ten thousand times AND they already had the answer in front of them?  Sure.
There\'s this old acronym that\'s been floating around the net since before there was an internet.  RTFM.  Maybe we should change it to read RTFF.
Go ahead, bash us because you asked the same question/made the same post that an army of armies has already made.  Sure thing man, we\'ll get right on to helping you out when you wont help yourself.

Windows ME is just an extension of Windows 98 SE.  Anything that will run on Windows 98 SE will run on Windows ME.  Just think of Windows ME as Windows 98 TE (third edition).  As such, you dont need a compatibility for Windows ME option.

This problem (windows NT based systems and 16 bit color) has been addressed in multiple other posts.

Is there, Link?

Or could it be that another person has encountered an actual problem with the game, as I did, and there is a real and true fix?

Not all \"Problem with game\" reports are fixed by \"it is too working, just wait\".  Matter of fact, no post I have seen yet has been fixed by your standardized response.

Perhaps you should look a bit more in depth at what you are replying to, instead of remaining steadfast in your role of doing nothing productive.

Originally posted by Link

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Originally posted by Holli
but I am poor

Do you have a house? food? lights and water? clothes? A COMPUTER if you have these things then you are certainly not poor.

Does that have anything at all to do with what she or anyone else on this board said?

After some playing, hacking, and testing, I\'ve figured something out.

When running any NT based OS, being Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, AND you have a Geforce 4 card, due to the way the program is parsing the programmatical instructions it will die if the server is not giving it what it expects.  If the config file says that there will be 32 bit color textures et al, then the OS/Hardware expects there to be 32 bit color.  Since the server is only at this point passing 16 bit color, it generates an unhandled exception, due to the fact that it is trying to generate XYZ polygons without enough data to do so.

Think of it this way.  Im going to generate a 1 by 1 by 1 polygon.  To do so in 32 bit color requires that at least 96 bits of information (enough to color each side in).  The game knows this, the rendering engine knows this, so it requests the information from the server.  The server sends back only 48 bits and signals for an end to the transfer.  The rendering engine goes WHAT?  No way dude, resend (thus the reason why it takes so long for the program to die).  After finally figuring out that hey buddy, that\'s all thats coming, the program says fine, thats not enough, I cannot render, and errors to desktop with an unhandled unspecified error.

However.  Set your color depth to 16 bit, and the program knows that it only needs X amount of data to fill the vertices.  The server IS sending 16 bit data, so, the program gets happy.

Clearer now?

Yeah, that was me.  Changing your color depth in the config file to 16 bit lets it load no probby.