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Opengl crashes the game?
« on: 28 February, 2012, 06:21:10 AM »
Everytime I play Singleplayer. I'm able to play the game for a short while. But then all of a sudden. The screen freezes and the sound starts repeating itself. And then it crashes and shows me this: The Nvidia OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver and is unable to continue. The application must close. Please visit (Useless website with advice that I already tried) for help. Error code 8. It doesn't matter where I am and what I'm doing. If I wait long enough it will happen.

My graphics card is a NVIDIA Geforce GT 430.

What I tried already and failed:

Changing Multi-Display/mixed-GPU acceleration
Turning Threaded optimization Off
Lowering resolution (Tried the lowest. Still didn't work)



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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #1 on: 28 February, 2012, 06:45:57 AM »
Everytime I play Singleplayer. I'm able to play the game for a short while. But then all of a sudden. The screen freezes and the sound starts repeating itself. And then it crashes and shows me this: The Nvidia OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver and is unable to continue. The application must close. Please visit (Useless website with advice that I already tried) for help. Error code 8. It doesn't matter where I am and what I'm doing. If I wait long enough it will happen.

My graphics card is a NVIDIA Geforce GT 430.

What I tried already and failed:

Changing Multi-Display/mixed-GPU acceleration
Turning Threaded optimization Off
Lowering resolution (Tried the lowest. Still didn't work)

Well, error code 8 for programs typically means out of memory, and in the Windows device manager it means that it couldn't detect the proper resolution.

Some things to try:
Ensure virtual memory/page file is set to system managed by right clicking on "My Computer", then going to the "Advanced" tab, in the "Performance" section, click "Settings", and click the "Advanced" tab again, then change the virtual memory to system managed.

Reinstall your video driver. If that doesn't work, rename the OpenGL32.dll from the HL1 folder to OpenGL32.dll_bak and let me know if it is crashing still. It looks like we may be seeing a range of issues revolving around the custom OGL library.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #2 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:25:29 AM »
Well, error code 8 for programs typically means out of memory, and in the Windows device manager it means that it couldn't detect the proper resolution.

Some things to try:
Ensure virtual memory/page file is set to system managed by right clicking on "My Computer", then going to the "Advanced" tab, in the "Performance" section, click "Settings", and click the "Advanced" tab again, then change the virtual memory to system managed.

Reinstall your video driver. If that doesn't work, rename the OpenGL32.dll from the HL1 folder to OpenGL32.dll_bak and let me know if it is crashing still. It looks like we may be seeing a range of issues revolving around the custom OGL library.

Hello. Thanks for these options.

The first one did not work. I have changed my Disk driver E: (The Disk driver where the steam folder + Hl1 and Cry of Fear is on) to system managed and restarted my computer when I was asked to. But it did not change anything.

However. Renaming OpenGL32.dll to OpenGl31.dll_bak had a.. Interesting side effect. It fixed the crashing. However, 2 very odd bugs took it's place.

1: while dual wielding the knife and the phone. I can see 3 hands. one hand holding the knife. One hand holding the phone. And another empty hand near the phone that moves exactly the same like when you only hold a knife.

2: I can not use the Phone flashlight! And I have a feeling that I'm going to need that thing if I don't want to get myself horribly lost.

Edit: And I have been stupid.. It's Error code 7 that shows up. Not error code 8. Silly me!

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #3 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:29:43 AM »
Hello. Thanks for these options.

The first one did not work. I have changed my Disk driver E: (The Disk driver where the steam folder + Hl1 and Cry of Fear is on) to system managed and restarted my computer when I was asked to. But it did not change anything.

However. Renaming OpenGL32.dll to OpenGl31.dll_bak had a.. Interesting side effect. It fixed the crashing. However, 2 very odd bugs took it's place.

1: while dual wielding the knife and the phone. I can see 3 hands. one hand holding the knife. One hand holding the phone. And another empty hand near the phone that moves exactly the same like when you only hold a knife.

2: I can not use the Phone flashlight! And I have a feeling that I'm going to need that thing if I don't want to get myself horribly lost.

Edit: And I have been stupid.. It's Error code 7 that shows up. Not error code 8. Silly me!

That's unfortunate :( . It seems we're finding more issues with that custom OGL library every day. At first it seemed to be only with certain ATI cards, but now that we're seeing it on an Nvidia card as well, it's beginning to show that this is a particularly troublesome problem.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #4 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:40:45 AM »
That's unfortunate :( . It seems we're finding more issues with that custom OGL library every day. At first it seemed to be only with certain ATI cards, but now that we're seeing it on an Nvidia card as well, it's beginning to show that this is a particularly troublesome problem.

In case you have not noticed. I made a typing mistake. It's error code 7 that shows up. Not error code 8. Sorry!

Also. A bit of added info here. Everytime I End the game via Task manager while it's crashing. This message appears: “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”


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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #5 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:42:50 AM »
In case you have not noticed. I made a typing mistake. It's error code 7 that shows up. Not error code 8. Sorry!

Also. A bit of added info here. Everytime I End the game via Task manager while it's crashing. This message appears: “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”

The same thing happens with other ATI cards too. We've definitely done enough troubleshooting on this particular issue to narrow the problem down to the OGL library that comes with CoF.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #6 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:46:09 AM »
The same thing happens with other ATI cards too. We've definitely done enough troubleshooting on this particular issue to narrow the problem down to the OGL library that comes with CoF.

Well. I hope I have been of help! And I hope the issue gets fixed.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #7 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:51:26 AM »
Well. I hope I have been of help! And I hope the issue gets fixed.

Me too. I'm not a developer so I definitely couldn't say for sure. If given the source code and proper profiling tools I might be able to fix whatever is causing the crashing. I'd need to brush up on my C++ though, and OGL :)

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #8 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:55:18 AM »
Me too. I'm not a developer so I definitely couldn't say for sure. If given the source code and proper profiling tools I might be able to fix whatever is causing the crashing. I'd need to brush up on my C++ though, and OGL :)

If more reports of this error show up. The developers will probably notice. Or perphaps they're already aware of this. Who knows?

I guess i'll be playing the waiting game for now. Thanks for your help anyways.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #9 on: 28 February, 2012, 07:57:55 AM »
If more reports of this error show up. The developers will probably notice. Or perphaps they're already aware of this. Who knows?

I guess i'll be playing the waiting game for now. Thanks for your help anyways.

They're aware, but they didn't make the OGL library. It's from another HL1 mod called Paranoia.

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Re: Opengl crashes the game?
« Reply #10 on: 28 February, 2012, 08:04:47 AM »
They're aware, but they didn't make the OGL library. It's from another HL1 mod called Paranoia.


Hah, yeah. I heard of Paranoia before. I would never dare to play that mod becouse I heard from some people that there's a VAC ban risk if you play it. Something about the graphics I believe.