The error message you've seen is pointed to classical driver problem.

I know a lot of you wouldn't agree with me, but from my side of experience
on ATi card, I'd stay away from the brand. ATi has good hardware capacity,
but never has any good driver support. At work, I have a lot of driver
related problems with ATi cards, whenever I build a machine with ATi card
(only good ATi is old ATi AGP that win2k has native support), I likely have
to compromise on some test to give it pass (otherwise they'll never get
pass) which I never need to do to a nVidia card.

My advise is, look for future driver update (Good luck) if you are already
using the latest driver, or if you just installed the driver on ATi CD,
download the latest driver from net (big download, over 10Mb).

*I personally think that latest ATi radeon 8500 looks good on hardware side,
but I doubt the driver side.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
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To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 4:02 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 64MB ATI Radeon VE card can't play games!


> Hi there, I hope someone can help with this, it's not strictly hardware
but
> it is certainly hardware related.
>
> I just purchased a new Gateway PC, it's a P4 1.7Ghz and I opted to upgrade
> to the ATI Radeon VE 64MB graphics card. I am previewing Windows XP on it
> which nicely detects ALL hardware without any need for additional drivers.
I
> was looking forward to some serious gaming but it refuses to run any game
> that is OpenGL related, for example;
>
> GL version of Doom2 - at start up I get a Fatal error saying "OpenGL
Driver
> is not accelerated", then another saying "Unable to create main window,
> program will now end" (Normal Doom2 works fine)
>
> Quake 3 Arena "Could not load OpenGL subsystem"
>
>

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