Jedi Outcast ( JK2 ) / Jedi Academy ( JKA ) Crash fix for Intel Graphics. "Has stopped working" Fix. 2018 UPDATE.

[`Hi~Fi.`*MMi*]

Before we get started: If you have tried other fixes or other Opengl32.dll you must remove them. If you tried to set your game to run in a different compatibility mode you must revert that. These games work fine on Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows 8.1 despite what some people on the discussions say.

2016 EDIT : After testing a handful of different computer towers and laptops It seems newer computers using Windows 10 and any kind of graphics card (Intel, Nvidia, AMD/ATI) might need to enable compatibility mode for “Windows XP Service Pack 3” on both “.exe's.” Please use this as a last-ditch effort.

First of all, to get to your “gamedata” folder in JK2 and JKA you must go to your steam library, right click Jedi outcast or Jedi academy, then click properties (located in the context menu), now click the tab titled “Local Files” and then click the box titled "browse local files." If you followed these steps correctly you should see a folder pop up titled "Jedi Outcast" or "Jedi Academy" inside that folder there should be another folder titled "Gamedata" open that by selecting the folder and double clicking or select the folder and press enter key. Now you should see two “.exe” files one titled "jk2sp.exe" and "jk2mp.exe" (for JK2) or "jasp.exe" and "jamp.exe" (for JKA) Once you find them download the openGL32.dll from this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z7vs221tq8cd8a/opengl32.zip?dl=0

Download/Save it onto your desktop (Desktop Folder). Now open the openGL32.zip and extract the “openGL32.dll” file and place it on your desktop. Now move the openGL32.dll (not the .zip) into the “gamedata” folder.

Jedi Outcast (JK2)

For JK2 Single player Once that is done open the single player via steam library by clicking the title of the game and clicking the “Play” button and if the game launches to the main menu start up a new game by clicking “New” selecting any difficulty and finally click “Begin Game” once you watch the cut scene and are able to move around shut the game down by pressing the escape key and clicking “Exit” then click “Quit Program” then click “Yes” then try the Multiplayer.

Start Multiplayer by clicking the game in the steam library then click the “Play” button You should see a pop up with 2 radio buttons one will automatically be highlighted there should be a second radio button titled “Launch Multiplayer” Click that radio button and then click the “Play” button.

For JK2 Multiplayer Once the game starts click “Play” and then “Create Server” finally click begin. Once you load the game click “Join Game” in the “Player Configuration” Window and when you are finally able to move around close the game down once again by pressing the escape key, click “Exit” then click “Quit Program.”

Jedi Academy (JKA)

For JKA Single Player Once that is done open the single player via steam library by clicking the title of the game and clicking the “Play” button and if the game launches to the main menu start up a new game by clicking “New” selecting any difficulty and finally click “Begin Game” once you watch the cut scene and are able to move around shut the game down by pressing the escape key and clicking “Exit” then click “Quit Program” then click “Yes” then try the Multiplayer.

For JKA Multiplayer Once the game starts click “Play” and then click “Create a Game” then click “Begin” Once the game loads completely. Click “Join game” In the “Player Configuration” Window and when you are finally able to move around close the game down once again by pressing the escape key, click “Exit” then click “Quit Program.”

Once you get the games working correctly make sure you go into video settings by clicking “Setup” and then “Video” in the main menu of each game then set the graphics as high as you can without too much of a hit to frames. Change color depth to 32 bit, geometric and texture to high and very high, texture filter to trilinear, texture quality to 32 bit, detailed shaders on. This should help make the game not a blocky mess. You'll have to do this for the Single Player and the Multiplayer.

If the game for some reason still does not open you may need to enable compatibility mode for the .exe's (please use this as a last-ditch effort) to do this go to your gamedata folder again and find the "jk2sp.exe" and "jk2mp.exe" (for JK2) or "jasp.exe" and "jamp.exe" (for JKA). Once you find them, right click each one at a time and then click properties in the context menu. Click on the compatibility tab and check the box "Run this program in compatibility mode for" and select "Windows XP Service pack 3" and after that is done click "Apply" and then finally "OK." Once that is done test out the game.

And as for the resolution - unless you get the “Native Resolution Fix” I suggest running the game at the highest of the defaults you are able to, unless you want to use a mod that helps enable better support for custom resolution (such as OpenJK which only works for JKA without issues). Running the “base” game with the custom resolution fix or "Native Resolution Fix" causes the game to crash for some people in certain situations (E.G: Playing MP offline with bots).

The Custom resolution fix or "Native Resolution Fix" depends on your monitor and what resolution it supports. Therefor I will not be giving the native resolution fix because I do not know your native resolution, and not every monitor has the same native resolution. If you would like the “Native Resolution Fix” please let me know below and I will gladly give you the fix tailored to your monitors "native resolution"

If you need the fix for both JK2 and JKA You must copy the OpenGL32.dll and paste it from desktop into their gamedata folders. Just having the OpenGL32.dll inside the JK2 gamedata folder will not fix JKA.

Good Luck. If it that doesn't work feel free to do the following: Contact me for any additional help here in this topic, add me as a friend for more personalized help (You can unfriend me when we are done), leave a reply here (or in my other topic), and also If you are crashing with another GPU type leave a reply on this topic:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/6030/discussions/0/215439774867096622/ I'll get back to you “asap.”

Further Notes:

Do not try this fix on any Nvidia based graphics cards.

The OpenGL32.zip and OpenGL32.dll must be on desktop and then moved into the gamedata folder. Do not try to extract the .zip into gamedata.

OpenGL and OpenAL are not the same. OpenGL is the Open Graphics Library and OpenAL is the Open Audio Library. One is for graphics and the other is for sound.

Feel free to leave a bump here if this helped you out!

2018 Update : It appears that the fix is no longer working on extremely new intel graphics based all in ones and laptops from 2017 and 2018 even the openJK doesn't work meaning the game won't play entirely. If you can please let me know the model of your PC and if possible the exact intel graphics model if you do intend to let me know if it worked for you so I can figure out why it is no longer working and which boards it is working on.

However modern AMD/ATI computers seem to be the same might work might not situation. Hopefully with the new rumour going around that Intel might give up the onboard graphics game and use AMD onboard GPU with Intel CPU's this fix won't be an issue in the future.

Regardless if it isn't working for some people I suggest you still try the fix.

If you have any unique issues Please feel free to contact me in my chat room found here https://discord.gg/Mhx5DGm which works in any modern browser or if you would like to download the program for discord it can be found here https://discordapp.com/

[HunterZ]

It is set for max performance. I didn't have any problems in the game except for crashing at the Fyaar fight.

[`Hi~Fi.`*MMi*]

Bump for new players.

[`Hi~Fi.`*MMi*]

Bump for may 4th sale

[Sev]

İlk olarak `Hi~Fi.`*BK* tarafından gönderildi:

Bump for may 4th sale

May the 4th be with you Jeri outcasts

[Baby Choo]

hey "BK", I've tried the method in your thread (paste the .dll file to gamedata folder) and also others such as changing the screen configuration mentioned in this discussion , yet none of them worked for me so far. I wonder if there're still other methods available for me to try out?

Contact me if you can, I'd wanna refund this within a week when all methods are exhausted.

My PC specs: (it's a laptop)

CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (2 cores); SSE; SSE2; SSE3; SSSE3; SSE4.1; SSE4.2
DirectX : 12.0
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M / nvldumd.dll[24.21.13.9731]
Language : english
Memory : 16251MB 612KB
OS : 6.2.9200 () 0x300-0x1 (64 bits)
Physics : threaded
Renderer : DX9 threaded

Cheers.

update: nevermind, for those of ya'll who have the same or similar problem, who have the similar or same pc specs like I do, try running both "jk2mp.exe" and "jk2sp.exe" files in compatibility mode for Windows Vista. Those files are within your game's "GameData" folder.

May the force be with us.

[`Hi~Fi.`*MMi*]

Glad that it worked for you I recommended you try that in my post and specifically said not to use OpenGL with nvidia.

[Baby Choo]

lol yea i was gonna give it a try anyway, oh well, at least now it works! and yea, OpenGL does not work with nvida, confirmed. x)

[zenos]

I got it working with the opengl file thanks

I also changed the cfg to 1080 res however I can still see the taskbar in game

[Toby Darrell]

Hey! JK2 brings up the same issue like mentiontioned before
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll' ): failed
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

I'm using a Lenovo Laptop with Intel Graphics HD 620.

I already tried fixing it with the opengl32.dll into the gamedir, putting the exe in various compatibility modes, plus i replaced the opengl32.dll file from "C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll" with the one you offered to download but no luck so far. Issue remains. Any other suggestions?

[`Hi~Fi.`*MMi*]

500 models and 600 models are pretty difficult. For jk2 I suggest trying jk2mf

[Toby Darrell]

İlk olarak `Hi~Fi.`*BK* tarafından gönderildi:

500 models and 600 models are pretty difficult. For jk2 I suggest trying jk2mf

Thanks for your reply.

I tried it with jk2mf v2.0 but it can't start the game either. Same issue with the opengl32.dll... However jk2mv does start and is playable but it's only for mp and not sp :((
Is there a way to use jk2mv for sp?

[Xzergofr]

thank you very much, now my game work perfectly

[DEUS VULT]

game wont launch properly, i can run academy just fine but when i try and run jk2 game closes and leaves my desktop res at 800x600 and have to close steam to restore it.
cpu i7 4790
graphics gtx 960
windows 10
ram 16g

i have already tried the opengl.dll with no luck any other suggestions?

[Sev]

İlk olarak blackeliteops tarafından gönderildi:

game wont launch properly, i can run academy just fine but when i try and run jk2 game closes and leaves my desktop res at 800x600 and have to close steam to restore it.
cpu i7 4790
graphics gtx 960
windows 10
ram 16g

i have already tried the opengl.dll with no luck any other suggestions?

Did you have the same settings on for both games? Or the windows xp thing in the 2016 thing he posted up top

[DEUS VULT]

İlk olarak Head Hunter (no mic) tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak blackeliteops tarafından gönderildi:

game wont launch properly, i can run academy just fine but when i try and run jk2 game closes and leaves my desktop res at 800x600 and have to close steam to restore it.
cpu i7 4790
graphics gtx 960
windows 10
ram 16g

i have already tried the opengl.dll with no luck any other suggestions?

Did you have the same settings on for both games? Or the windows xp thing in the 2016 thing he posted up top

acedemy just worked without any modification at all, i have also tried the xp thing no luck there either