Couldn't start opengl subsystem

[DZIECIOL]

hello. i'm here cause after a long break of playing games i was about to spend some free time doing that, so i made steps to make it real. bought a game. installed it. and... we got a problem cause every time i launch RTCW i got the problem named in the title. is anyone that could help me? i know that win10 got many problems with integrated graphic cards what doesnt help with starting any games exes but if u coulda help me to find a way to fix that i would really appreciate what u did for me. any specification u need i can send in posts as a respond. GL&HF

[>M@tEo$<]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=256261724

[DZIECIOL]

it doesnt help. i really made every single step that they suggest to try and i got still same problem. is there a way to try work with the graphics card software and find a way to set OpenGL back on ? or i dont even know how to fix this without new GCard

[Kritzburgh]

Did you adjust any options like the resolution prior to this happening, or have you simply not been able to start the game at all yet? Either way, I have 3 solutions for you, 2 of which kind of overlap, but will work.

1) Locate your "wolfconfig.cfg" file and delete it, then restart the game. This is the simplest solution, and the likely fix if this problem occurred after changing the resolution to a wide-screen one in-game (the Steam version adds these wide-screen options that were never in the retail version of RTCW, and will break your game if you select them. It's really dumb). The wolfconfig.cfg file should either be in steamapps/common/Return to Castle Wolfenstein/Main or My Documents/RTCW/Main.

2) As you said, Windows 10 has some issues with older games, so fan-made sourceports are a life saver. RTCW has a great one called "ioRTCW", which can be downloaded here: https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/releases/tag/1.51c

Using a file archiver utility like WinRAR or 7zip, you're going to want to extract your newly downloaded files into your "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" folder in Steam, merging all when asked. Once that's done, doubleclick "ioWolfSP.exe" to open up the game in the sourceport. This sourceport is exactly the same as the vanilla game, except there's some bug fixes and widescreen and native resolution support up to 2560x1440.

3) Download the RealRTCW mod on Steam and play the game through that. It's built on the ioRTCW sourceport mentioned above, so it has widescreen as well as a few other features that the base game doesn't have while still remaining faithful to it.

Let me know if this helps!

[DZIECIOL]

so. we are at the point where the thing is the game hasnt started even once. its always caused by the error we have named. the thing with the config is like theres no config file. i have tried even putting own config file with the original values for cvars but it didn't work. the next step i picked was to try with that io u said it coulda work. and probably it coulda help but it sends me back to the begginning tellin me that i cant play without updated opengl and i checked that. i cant update opengl cause of my graphics card probably its not supporting any other type of working than just displaying basic screens. i'll try with RealRTCW but i dont have much hope with that. i think after second step i get all answers i was in need to read. thanks for ur help ;)

[Kritzburgh]

That sucks. Just on the offchance, are you sure you're trying to open the ioWolfSP executable and not just trying to boot it up via Steam? The latter will still give you the error, but doubleclicking the ioWolfSP file itself is what starts the sourceport up. In any case, best of luck on RealRTCW working.

[DZIECIOL]

Real dont want to start. the problem is that io tells me that i need Opengl version 3.2 and the thing is my deafult graphics device doesn't support opengl 3.2 i dont know how it realli is but i cant find any software that allows me to update just open gl for my device. and i cant do it for myself cause the device hasnt got any name. like it isn't even here so the only solution is to find any graphics card and put it inside of it and then try to install drivers for it and then start any game. thanks for ur help boys. it was really helpful. take care :)

[Kritzburgh]

I know that feel of having games not want to start for the dumbest reasons. If you can't get a refund hopefully you can give it a try in the future on a different system. You take care as well. :D