Closing GLPRO.exe hangs computer!

[Monster]

I just got my new computer, and whenever I exit from glpro.exe, my computer hangs and all these weird colors appear on the screen. Sometimes it'll be like half the screen some blue color, other times it'll be all different colors. I tried doing CTRL+ALT+DEL and it sent me back to the desktop, but there were all weird black blotches all over the screen. I hit the num lock keys to see if the keyboard was responsive, and it wasn't. So I had no choice but to hit the restart button on my computer.

GLPRO.exe starts up easily, and plays perfectly fine, but just when I close it is when I have problems.

This problem doesn't happen with DarkPlaces, which is the only other quake client that I have tried. My video card is an Nvidia GeForce 7950 gx2 1gb ram (a fairly new card (the fastest single card out there), glpro may not like it), processor amd athlon 4800+ dualcore with hypertransport, 2gb RAM.

[RocketGuy]

so much for latest hardware

[Baker]

Does it happen with wqpro too? If not, that is almost 100% confirmation that it is the video card drivers.

I don't know why OpenGL is so fragile when it comes to Quake when I think Half-Life and Quake 3 use it as well.

Maybe try updating drivers.

[Monster]

It doesn't happen with wqpro... I will be installing the newest drivers (if they have any out yet) soon.

[Monster]

I just installed the newest nvidia forceware drivers, and it exits very smoothly now. Thanks baker for suggesting that!

[foq]

Good to see it's working for you. Video card drivers can be a pain in the ass and it's almost like gambling.
1. Will I get better or worse performance?
2. Will all the features work? (I installed 91.31 and enabled antialaising and only 1/4 of my screen was displayed in most games. After I shut antialaising off it worked fine.)
3. My video card is relatively old... will it even be supported??
edit: hey monster, see how much FPS you can get in GLPRO for the crowd.

[Monster]

Darkplaces runs a lot better now with the new drivers, i get 60ish fps on 1400x1050 with 16x aniso filter and antialising with rt world, bloom and everything to the max.

[foq]

fuck you
I get 45 fps w/o realtime anything on 1024x768 w/o antialaising and w/o ansiotropic filtering w/o everything to the max. You're fortunate to have a dad that can spend $3000-$5000 on you just for a computer.
P.S.: Dont take it seriously when I said "fuck you", heh.

[Monster]

Actually was $2500. A very good deal. I might be getting another one of those cards so it can be in QUAD SLI setup.

[foq]

Ok $2500!! You fortunate bastard!!
I can't get $2500 @ christmas. heh
Again, don't take the fortunate bastard part too seriously...

[Canadian*Sniper]

QUAD SLI

Wow.... just wow.... Shouldn't people wait atleast 10-20 years before resorting to that!?

[foq]

I know it's like he's freakin bill gates w/ a super computer. He's probally on a 486 lol.

[Monster]

As crazy as it sounds, I do get frame loss on certain games such as FEAR and darkplaces. Everything else runs perfectly smooth. Throw in another card, would make it QUAD SLI since there are 2 GPU's on each card. i would have to shell out $600 to get another one of those cards however..

[Canadian*Sniper]

I'd like to know where this money is falling from :-/

[foq]

Taxpayers! Monster must be the government! o.O
Anyways, try turning ansiotropic filtering and antialaising down to simply 4x. I reaslly never notice a difference beyond 4x.