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Ticket #2801 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 8 months ago

OpenGL: Call of Duty fails to start due to lacking GL extensions -> Fixed in SVN/3.1.0

Reported by: Fenix*NBK* Assigned to:
Priority: minor Component: 3D support
Version: VirtualBox 2.1.0 Keywords:
Cc: Guest type: Windows
Host type: Windows

Description

One of the best OpenGL games, "Call of Duty" (CoD), refuses to run on VBox 2.1.0 due to lack of extensions. How to find which extensions lack ?

CoD log attached.

Attachments

CoD_error.txt (4.1 kB) - added by Fenix*NBK* on 2008-12-19 00:02:56.
CoD_error.txt

Change History

2008-12-19 00:02:56 changed by Fenix*NBK*

  • attachment CoD_error.txt added.

CoD_error.txt

2008-12-19 14:13:32 changed by pentagonik

Did you also install the newest Guest Additions and enabled 3D acceleration in the machine settings? I was able to start Call of Duty, but there were some glitches with the ingame graphics though.

2008-12-19 15:40:01 changed by Fenix*NBK*

Yes, I have 3D acceleration, and other tests and games work fine.

-Technologov 19.12.2008.

2008-12-19 19:48:59 changed by leonid

  • priority changed from major to minor.
  • type changed from defect to enhancement.

Hard to say for Call of Duty which extension does it miss unless you have it sources. Another way is to report all possible extension strings to make it crash and then remove extension one by one untill it starts to fail with the error you've got.

Moving to enchanments, as this missing extension is part of opengl spec >1.5.

2009-02-03 15:55:03 changed by res

A bit of a shot in the dark but: IIRC Call of Duty 1 uses DXT-compressed textures; the *S3TC extensions needed for that are missing from the extension list in the logs.

Submitter: you should first try running CoD on your host machine (use Wine under Linux) - this should indicate whether your graphics chip/driver is capable of running CoD at all, since the virtual machine at most only inherits these capabilities.

2009-07-04 17:16:42 changed by Fenix*NBK*

This bug is still valid with VirtualBox 3.0.

-Technologov

2009-08-04 13:55:58 changed by leonid

  • summary changed from OpenGL: Call of Duty fails to start due to lacking GL extensions to OpenGL: Call of Duty fails to start due to lacking GL extensions -> Fixed in SVN..

2009-09-13 01:16:54 changed by Fenix*NBK*

Unfortunately not fixed.

This bug is still valid with VirtualBox 3.0.6 -- I have reinstalled both VBox and Guest Additions.

-Technologov, 13.9.2009.

2009-09-13 01:17:17 changed by Fenix*NBK*

Both Call of Duty 1 and 2 fails.

2009-09-13 02:30:35 changed by leonid

Wait for 3.1.

2009-11-24 23:26:03 changed by Fenix*NBK*

Call of Duty 1 works now !

Host: Windows 7, x64, Core 2 Q6600, ATI Radeon HD 3850, VBox 3.1.0-BETA2.

Thanks a lot !

You can close this one.

-Technologov, 25.11.2009.

2009-11-25 08:45:45 changed by frank

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!

2009-11-25 08:45:56 changed by frank

  • summary changed from OpenGL: Call of Duty fails to start due to lacking GL extensions -> Fixed in SVN. to OpenGL: Call of Duty fails to start due to lacking GL extensions -> Fixed in SVN/3.1.0.


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