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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"

I would have thought with hardware so new, so fast, so fab and groovy, that
this PC would run everything without complaint.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jerry.

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