Just bought Jedi Knight 2 and having problems

[m3po]

I've always wanted to buy Jedi Knight II and finally I found it for 10 bucks. I installed it and tried running it but this error keeps coming up when I try and play the single player, "There is no 3D hardware installed on your system", ect. I have an ATI Radeon 9500/9700 Pro. And the driver I installed is the latest Catalyst driver. Then I installed the drivers that the trouble shooting doc file told me too. None of that worked. I can run the game in safe mode but I want to know why I can't run it regularly. Anyone have any clues or can point me to the threat that addresses this?

 

Thanks

[Crow_Nest]

Are you using a 9500 or a 9700?

[m3po]

9700.

[Crow_Nest]

When you first installed the 3D card was the CPU able to detect it automatically or did you need to do something to make it detect? If it wasnt detected and straight away installed the drivers, it could have been courrpted. Making the game unable to detect it.

[m3po]

I did nothing out of the ordinary. I'm pretty sure the CPU detected the 3D card. The only thing I have been doing is installing the newest drivers from the ATI website, and even the older ones that were around when Jedi first came out.

[Crow_Nest]

Well you know new hardware (Especially those really new and good ones) wont run old games that are 2 - 3 or more years old really well.

[Kurgan]

New hardware won't run old games well? That seems kinda weird statement to make.

 

If it's just because of Glide, you can get a glide wrapper (no experience using them though). But I am running games from 2000, 2001, and even 1997 (JK) and performance is great here.

 

 

PS: JK2 for $10, JA for $20 (both Jewel case versions) at local stores here, w00t!

 

There is even a collector's tin of JK2 left over for only 25$ I think. If I was made of money I'd get it just on principal.. ; )