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ATi HD 3850 AGP Return to Castle Wolfenstein crash

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First post, by Shiftyy

Posted on Today, 13:14

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Hi all,

I'm trying to play RtWC on my ATi HD 3850 AGP and it keeps crashing the driver within a minute of the first cutscene.

I have managed to finish the cutscene if I set all details to their lowest, but it eventually crashes a few mins into the first level.

I have asked @agent_x007 to try on their HD 3850 and they had the same results.

We have tried many driver versions, from oldest to the newest and inbetween.

I have installed the latest game patches, tried r_primitives 2, and anything else I could find.

No luck. Still hard crashes the video driver within a minute in the first cutscene.

Has anyone experienced this problem and could offer some advice?

Windows XP 32bit SP3.

Reply 1 of 2, by dominusprog

Posted on Today, 15:02

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Use Display Driver Uninstaller to completely remove the current driver and try a different version then.

https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-drive … aller-download/

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Reply 2 of 2, by leileilol

Posted on Today, 17:23

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Do you have a glide wrapper like nglide installed that's causing RTCW to freak out and try to use its provided WickedGL ICDs? It's really buggy for the Voodoo card detection and that'll throw a lot of things off. Make sure r_glDriver is set to opengl32 and r_glIgnoreWicked3D set to 1.

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