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mpardalos

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Registered: 2012-12-01

Posts: 11

Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

I recently downloaded team fortress 2 from steam and when i was about to open it it crashed with this error:

"could not find required OpenGL entry point "glColorMaskIndexedEXT"! Either your video card is unsupported or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated"

I searched everywhere and the only thing I found was about nvidia cards or even older ati cards. I'm using radeon X800GTO.

Please help I really want to play this game and not on Windows!

Edit:
found out how to launch it from the command line, here's the output:

SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'
This system supports the OpenGL extension GL_EXT_framebuffer_object.
This system supports the OpenGL extension GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit.
This system supports the OpenGL extension GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample.
This system DOES NOT support the OpenGL extension GL_APPLE_fence.
This system DOES NOT support the OpenGL extension GL_NV_fence.
This system supports the OpenGL extension GL_ARB_sync.
This system DOES NOT support the OpenGL extension GL_EXT_draw_buffers2.
Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

Last edited by mpardalos (2013-02-19 20:01:07)

lonewolf896

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Registered: 2013-02-19

Posts: 2

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

What video driver are you using?

If you are using the open source go to the proprietary and try it, if proprietary try opensource.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

Your card is waaaaay too old to support what's necessary to run these games. Waaaaaaaaaay.

Vipermaseg

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 62

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

Really, check that you are usign the proper drivers. Do what lonewolf said.

Last edited by Vipermaseg (2013-02-19 21:36:50)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

No driver will help here, the hardware isn't capable. It supports opengl 2 only. TF2 requires opengl 3

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 703

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

What video driver are you using?

If you are using the open source go to the proprietary and try it, if proprietary try opensource.

That is not helping. His only choice is the open-source driver, because the card is too old. Also as Gusar said: His card isn't capable to run TF2 in Linux.

mpardalos

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Registered: 2012-12-01

Posts: 11

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

Is it possible that i could run any other source game from steam?

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 703

Re: Team Fortress 2 OpenGL problem

Is it possible that i could run any other source game from steam?

Not with your hardware. You need at least a HD 2xxx card. Because of OpenGL 3.x.