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Augusta_Mintaka - Student  |
I recently put together a new computer and thought I would get JKA working on it. I ran into a problem which I thought was due to trying to run the game in Windows 7 x64, but I learned it was really because of the new drivers from ATI lacking support for older openGL games.
Long story short, I looked around for a little while and found somebody who already put instructions on how to fix the issue. Quote: http://jediknight3.filefront.com/fil...atch_101;20459 Also found this: http://forums.filefront.com/sw-jk3-p...solutions.html Game crashes when I update to the latest ATI drivers! (Catalyst 10.5) Originally Posted by Xycaleth View Post Those of you with ATI graphics cards may have noticed that the latest drivers versions (Catalyst 10.5+) will crash Jedi Academy as well as other old games which rely on old OpenGL (this is the graphics library used for 3D rendering) functionality. Newer games which rely on OpenGL shoudn't be affected as they will use the newer functionality. After searching through the ATI forums, I came across a fix which works. So here it is: 1. Go to the driver download selection page at the ATI website: Graphics Drivers & Software 2. Select the options which suit your graphics card, and then click Display Results. 3. Under the heading which starts ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.6 Suite for..., click the Previous Drivers link. 4. Click Catalyst 10.4. 5. Download the Display Driver (downloading the Full Software Suite also works, but the Display Driver download is slightly smaller ) 6. Run the installer, and make a note of where the ATI install files will be extracted to. By default it will be C: \ATI. 7. Wait for the files to extract, and on the next window (should be the Catalyst Install Manager), click Cancel to cancel the installation. 8. Go to the directory you wrote down earlier, where the install files were extracted, and navigate into the Support directory, and then the directory which begins 10-4_. 9. Navigate into the Packages/Drivers directory. 10. Keep entering the first (and only) directory visible until there are no more directories to enter. For me, this was C: \ATI\Support\10-4_vista64_win7_64_dd\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A _INF\B_98282 (for a Windows 7 64-bit driver). 11. Find the file atioglxx.dl_, and copy this file to your Jedi Academy's GameData directory. 12. Copy and paste the below batch script code into a new file called atifix.bat, and save it to the GameData folder. expand atioglxx.dl_ atioglxx.dll Alternatively, you can run the command directly from the command prompt, and skip the last step. 13. Run the atifix.bat file. If you have any problems, just reply to this topic and hopefully I or someone else I'm not sure if this had been posted here before, sorry for the spam if it was. The search option doesn't ever work for me. Anyways, not my fix, just found it here. _______________ "Deos fortioribus adesse." |
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Kaspar - Student 
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Thenk YOOOUUU!!! Finally I can play me some JK
PS! the same thing works with JO as well. _______________  Kaspar
This comment was edited by Kaspar on Jul 29 2010 12:49am. |
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Cloud Senatu - Student 
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Quote: ...and while I'm at it, Xfire won't launch/load the multiplayer unless you run Xfire with admin rights on win7. Wouldn't track statistics or launch the game till I changed that
That's something that would need to be done whether you're in Vista or Windows 7. If one is running in Administrator and the other isn't, then they won't work together. Same goes with Ultra Utility and Jedi Academy. |
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Eckyman - Student 
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I had an issue with my ATI/Win7/JKA
My ATI card has gone legacy now and support stopped at Vista (need a new one asap). The latest win7 driver caused an OpenGL fail when opening JKA. Removed driver, installed latest Vista driver from ATI (minus the Catalyst Control Center)... problem solved. ...and while I'm at it, Xfire won't launch/load the multiplayer unless you run Xfire with admin rights on win7. Wouldn't track statistics or launch the game till I changed that _______________ Padawan of Xanatos "You never say, "I'm gonna fight you, Steve." You just smile and act natural, and then you sucker-punch him." - Steve Zissou |
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