mudlord
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Do games like Doom 3,the Quake series of FPSes, Half-Life (the original, not the Source Engine port), Jedi Knight 2 run ok? If so, then your PC is not "allergic" to OGL...I think my computer is allergic to OpenGL somehow...
It might be possible that raised render to texture emulation may enable this effect in Rice's; I would appreciate a save state to experiment with this myself if anyone dares.
Framebuffers don't effect how lighting effects in Paper Mario work..Its something internal, so no end-user options will help.
Everyone use Mudlord's opengl checker to see if your vid card supports HWFB. If not then it will crash if you have this "on". And posts your specs (A.I.), it sounds like your card doesn't support HWFB.
Correction: The framebuffer detection is for framebuffer objects (GL_EXT_framebuffer_object) only. All OGL compliant video cards should support the rewritten FB code that ziggy made (which uses the same methods as glN64, however FBOs can still be used, for computers that benefit from that). The new methods are core to OGL, so there's no real detection method for this. But in some cases for this new method, shaders are used, like in the FBO implementation