open gl setup and freezes?

[bdog]

I recently downloaded quake three test (win98)and found that I needed open gl drivers for it to work. I have a 16 mb diamond monster fusion agp card and downloaded a 3dfx open gl driver from download.com that was supposed to detect my specific card and install the right drivers. I thought all went well, and the quake test played wonderfully. I even noticed that another program that I use bencmarked about 75% higer on the 2d and 3d graphics. The problem is that now a lot of other applications cause my computer to freeze, mainly netscape navigator 4.6. I never had freezeing problems before, so I uninstalled the drivers and the freezing went away. I have the most current drivers for my video card installed, so I am not sure what to do. I like the benefits of the open gl for quake and a few other programs, but can't live with the freezing....anyone have any suggestions on how to cure this problem???

[Bleeding Edge]

Did you try the GL driver from Diamond?

Note the Bios info.

http://www.diamondmm.com/products/drivers/monster-fusion.html

[Joel Kleppinger]

Heh.. I just today got a Monster Fusion working with Q3Test. I did it with the latest drivers from xenograph.net (http://xenograph.net) .

I also downloaded drivers from wicked3d.com, but I haven't tried them out yet. They are supposed to be 50% faster.

[bdog]

Thanks for the advice. I tried the Diamond drivers and they don't work. It said they were specifically wrote for quake 1 & 2 and would not work with anything else. I will try the ones you mentioned Joel, hopefully they will work. Did they cause any other problems on your computer? I can get Q3 to work fine, but the drivers screw other things up.