Anyway, I just updated my video card drivers. I have a geforce fx 5200 pci 128 mb ddr. I started up steam (the program used to play valve's games) and I have the games on OpenGL mode and they have run fine before. Now the mouse moves around fine, but the splash screen (start a game, join a game, go to options and what not) is extremely slow at loading up and bringing up the correct window when I choose what I want. It only does this when its on OpenGl. When on Software mode or Direct3D it works fine. What is going on?

Try going into Display Properties (Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Display) and then click on the Settings tab, then press the Advanced button. Do you have a slider bar for an OpenGL quality/performance variable? Perhaps you have it on 'maximum quality' and it needs to be moved towards 'maximum performance' a little?

Ok, I went into the advanced display settings and nowhere could I find an OpenGl slider. It is almost as if OpenGl doesn't exist on my computer anymore. I did find a hardware accelerator, but that has always been on full and I am pretty sure changing that will do nothing? Is there anyway I can reinstall OpenGl or something? Anything else I can do?

Bump!

Is this the driver you have?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_71.84.html


When you updated your drivers previously did you uninstall the old before reinstalling the new?

The standard method being:

Download the new drivers & Save to disk.

Then:

Boot the computer to Safe Mode options (F8 after BIOS) & choose:
"Enable VGA Mode".
Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.
Find your graphics card driver package & uninstall.
While in Control Panel, go to System, Hardware, Device Manager.
Expand (Click +) besides Display Adapter,
Right Click your graphics card, Choose Properties, Drivers, uninstall.
Reboot the Machine - It will re-detect your graphics card.
Then install the new drivers.