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#1 otts2222
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i am trying to play some games on my pc and they are are failing- it says that i do not have a recent enough version of Open GL- it says i need version 1.3 or over yet i do not know what version i have or what i need- i just got a brand new alienware with a geforce 8800GTX so i dont know what the problem is- if this should be in the hardware section im sorry- PLEASE HELP
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#2 mmmd
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Have you tried updating your video drivers?

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

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#3 otts2222
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yeah
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i am trying to play some games on my pc and they are are failing- it says that i do not have a recent enough version of Open GL- it says i need version 1.3 or over yet i do not know what version i have or what i need- i just got a brand new alienware with a geforce 8800GTX so i dont know what the problem is- if this should be in the hardware section im sorry- PLEASE HELPotts2222

install latest video card driver and latest Direct X

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#5 NamelessPlayer
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Installing a new version of DirectX won't do jack for OpenGL. They're two totally different APIs. OpenGL is integrated at the driver level, apparently, so updating your drivers might solve the problem.