hey i havent got battlefield1942 to work and “EA” support is helping me with it and i had the same problem with Command and Conquer:GENERALS /. but im having another problem now with Midnight club 2 it loads into the menu fine and when it loads up i get a black screen but i can hear the motor when i press the arrow keys
Originally posted by jdgordon:
which link has the opengl 1.3 ?
I reverted back to version 43.45 of the Nvidia detonators and my games worked
Wow i havnt tried it yet but this looks like it will work, but just a note before im trying this so for my sound doesnt work and cant mess with video options when right clicking so i hope this will fix it thx for the info!
Thanks for posting this info Timmay 
Was exactly what I was looking for 
Wonder why they disabled it in the first place???
Klaus
Hey no prob. They do that because it is server only OS and you really dont need opengl on a server.
I had windows 2003 server installed on my laptop, but took it off because it didn’t let me use my 3d graphics accelerator. (9600 mobility radeon)
Does anyone know if this will work with the custom drivers provided by the laptop manufacturers? If anyone has got it to work, let me know, cuz I REALLY don’t want to take off XP and put on server 2003 only to have to put XP back on.
Thanks
Thanx a million mate, I have had a nightmare trying to open games until I read your post. You are a life saver.
Originally posted by Timmay:
[b]I found this online help and it got my opengl working with windows 2003. and it opened the nvidia graphics options in display properties, so I could turn vertical sync and antialiasing off and I could get into my games. Then in counterstrike I did my fps_max 101 command and boom, 100 frames per second. Just hope this helps some of you out. full document found http://www.neowin.net/reviews/win2003_wk…ion%20Guide.doc it is how to make a windows 2003 server into a workstation. Now here is the opengl info.
By default Windows Server 2003 is hardware acceleration disabled for graphics cards, meaning only 2D and limited 3D capability is there. We can enable all this painlessly and without much effort. You will still be required to install 3D enabled drivers (like ATi Catalyst or nVIDIA Detonator drivers) for Windows 2000/XP. These can be installed on Windows Server 2003 but only after hardware acceleration is enabled will they work (and display the 3D related tabs in display properties) .
In this image you can see the default setting for the hardware acceleration, to change it to this follow these steps:
Right Click on desktop > Select “Properties” > Select “Settings” tab > Click “Advanced” > Select “Troubleshoot” tab and move the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to “Full” > Click OK > OK
That’s not all, DirectX (8.1) DirectDraw, Direct3D and AGP Texture Acceleration is also disabled by default on Windows Server 2003. (pic) to enable:
Click Start > Run > Type dxdiag & enter > Select Display tab > Click Enable on all Acceleration options > Click Exit
The result is Hardware Acceleration and DirectX enabled for Windows Server 2003. as you can see in the above pic I still have the default Microsoft drivers installed for my GeForce 4 Ti4400, so unless you had been previously prompted to reboot now is a good time to install those Detonator drivers (version of your choice) for Windows 2000/XP. If you use another type of card your 3D enabled drivers can be installed now. (Please remember that the latest Detonator drivers require DirectX 9)[/b]
Hey no problem, glad I could help out everyone here.
Thanx a whole heap… my windows 2003 installation works perfect. And im using the latest detonator drivers (53.03)
I have this same problem, BUT with a complication.
when i try to go to display properties settings/ advanced the ‘advanced’ option is grayed out.
how do i get past this