[Ice8168]

Ok I have no idea whats going on. Ive been able to run these games in the past and now after an absence form playing them they will no longer run on my machine.

The game wont even start and I get the following message:

Prey 1.2.116 win-x86 Sep 18 2006 16:54:05
2611 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT & x64
3584 MB System Memory
512 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Found interface: {7A68310B-2A6F-417D-863E-AD774031D4D2} NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport - 192.168.1.101/255.255.255.0
Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface
prey using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0xff851bf2
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x7dc00ede
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd06647b1
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0x57dce443
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0x263006fe
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0xcc075380
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0xead35190
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0xed8ce397
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Prey/base
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak006.pk4 (108 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak005.pk4 (10 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak004.pk4 (3739 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak003.pk4 (4111 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak002.pk4 (5337 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak001.pk4 (6270 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\pak000.pk4 (3318 files)
C:\Program Files\Prey\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
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----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
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2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
Couldn't open journal files
couldn't exec editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec preyconfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
2661 strings read from strings/english001.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
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----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 10 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): succeeded
...checking for ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT: succeeded
...shutting down OpenAL
...unloading OpenAL DLL
...initializing OpenAL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'openal32.dll' ): succeeded
...creating AL device: succeeded
...creating AL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
...shutting down OpenAL
...unloading OpenAL DLL
sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
...using GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
********************
The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features.
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL


Ive tried reinstalling the games, that didnt work. Ive reinstalled the latest nVidia drivers and that didnt work either.

Im officially asking for some much needed advise

[zacharyt]

Sounds like you have a bad video driver install. Happened to me when i was playing KOTOR. Go to drivercleaner.net and download the program. It is $9.99 to buy it, and i dont think they have a free trial or anything, but it is really worth it . It uninstalls the drivers completely for a fresh install.

[Ice8168]

OK well I got it working. I just reinstalled the driver that came with the card and everything works fine. Thanks for the help.