it would appear many people have had this issue.

i have verified multiple times, updated drivers, ran RegVideo and dug into all ends of this.

i'll mention that i have an ati hd 3870.

the last bit i was looking at was openGL compatibility and noticed a few things when looking through the log.

1946 | + XSOgl | GL_GREMEDY_string_marker not found.
1948 | + XSOgl | GL_GREMEDY_frame_terminator not found.

these two lines seem to be the problem.

the other not found functions are nvidia specific, and:
1930 | + XSOgl | GL_EXT_paletted_texture not found.
which if i am to believe openGL viewer; is only used by nvidia cards.

my card currently fully supports up to openGL 3.3 and has majority support for 4.2.

then there are a few initialization errors; two of which i expect are supposed to happen:

1361 | + XSOgl | WGL_ARB_multisample error initialising extension.
1363 | + XSOgl | GL_ARB_multisample error initialising extension.

and one that i'm uncertain:

1388 | + XSOgl | GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc error initialising extension.

then, of course, all of the nvidia specific GL_NV_ functions are, as expected, not found. so i won't bother listing them.

i'm not sure this helps figure anything out, but as i suspect all i'm going to get out of my support ticket is a politically correct ''go eff yourself; how should i know?''

i'm just trying to ascertain why it's not working. my card is below the minimum specs, sure, but there are cards below that run it and above that don't. i'd like to know why that is that it seems to only be ati cards having the problem. does the reliance on GL_NV_ functions break the render loop for some ati cards?