Doomsday in Windows 8 error - worked fine in 7 [Resolved]

Sasquatch

Greetings,

I had successfully installed DE 1.9.9 in Windows 7 x64. Had a great time with it and my old familiar DOOM & DOOM 2 beasties. Thanks a bunch for resurrecting them.

I've just made the jump to Windows 8 x64 and am immediately confronted with an OpenGL error message. Details below. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Executable: Doomsday Engine 1.9.9 (Stable 32-bit #638) Sep 29 2012 23:22:50.
Command line (87 strings):
  0: ..\Bin\Doomsday.exe
  1: -basedir
  2: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday
  3: -userdir
  4: C:\Users\User\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime
  5: -file
  6: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-ammobox.1.01.pk3
  7: -file
  8: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-ammoclip.1.01.pk3
  9: -file
  10: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-arachnotron.1.01.pk3
  11: -file
  12: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-arachnoshot.1.01.pk3
  13: -file
  14: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-archvile.1.01.pk3
  15: -file
  16: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-armor.1.01.pk3
  17: -file
  18: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-backpack.1.01.pk3
  19: -file
  20: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-baronofhell.1.01.pk3
  21: -file
  22: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-baronfireball.1.01.pk3
  23: -file
  24: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-barrel.1.01.pk3
  25: -file
  26: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-berzerkpack.1.01.pk3
  27: -file
  28: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-hud-bfg.1.01.pk3
  29: -file
  30: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-w-bfg.1.01.pk3
  31: -file
  32: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-bfgshot.1.01.pk3
  33: -file
  34: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-biglamp.1.01.pk3
  35: -file
  36: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-bigstonepillar.1.01.pk3
  37: -file
  38: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-bigtree.1.01.pk3
  39: -file
  40: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-bloodpools.1.01.pk3
  41: -file
  42: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-bosscube.1.01.pk3
  43: -file
  44: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-rocketbox.1.01.pk3
  45: -file
  46: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-shellbox.1.01.pk3
  47: -file
  48: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-brainstem.1.01.pk3
  49: -file
  50: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-celllarge.1.01.pk3
  51: -file
  52: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-cacodemon.1.01.pk3
  53: -file
  54: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-candelabra.1.01.pk3
  55: -file
  56: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-cacofireball.1.01.pk3
  57: -file
  58: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-candle.1.01.pk3
  59: -file
  60: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-cell.1.01.pk3
  61: -file
  62: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-hud-chaingun.1.01.pk3
  63: -file
  64: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-w-chaingun.1.01.pk3
  65: -file
  66: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\jdrp-w-chainsaw.1.01.pk3
  67: -file
  68: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\pk-doom-sfx-20100109.pk3
  69: -file
  70: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\addons\deng-dhtp-20111231.pk3
  71: -pwadtex
  72: -nomusic
  73: -sfxchan
  74: 16
  75: -w
  76: 1920
  77: -texcomp
  78: -game
  79: doom1
  80: -h
  81: 1080
  82: -fullscreen
  83: -iwad
  84: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\DOOM.WAD
  85: -bpp
  86: 32
Sys_InitWindowManager: Using Qt window management.
Initializing plugins...
  jDoom
  dpdehread
  dpwadmapconverter
Starting LegacyCore event loop...
Display mode has changed.
Canvas: Gained focus.
Canvas: Lost focus.
Canvas: Gained focus.
Error initializing OpenGL.

Restoring original display mode due to shutdown.
Canvas: Lost focus.

Sasquatch

I suppose I should add this Windows 8 x64 install was not an upgrade, rather a new clean install from non-OEM RTM media.

DaniJ

Sounds like you haven't yet installed your video driver and are still using the default driver included in the OS.

Sasquatch

DaniJ wrote:

Sounds like you haven't yet installed your video driver and are still using the default driver included in the OS.

Correct. I'll try the driver from ATI.

Sasquatch

The ATI driver was the fix. Thank you.

I do not recall if I had ever loaded an ATI supplied driver on the Windows 7 load.