Sean Meighan

Hardware => General hardware => Topic started by: morry on May 07, 2024, 08:45:38 PM

Title: video drivers
Post by: morry on May 07, 2024, 08:45:38 PM

opengl 1.x,2.x no longer supported where do i get update drivers I used to be able to run xlights on my acer laptop and no longer can

Title: Re: video drivers
Post by: MikeKrebs on May 07, 2024, 09:21:40 PM

This might help:

https://support.inspera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018413077-How-to-fix-Your-graphics-driver-does-not-appear-to-support-OpenGL

Basically though, update your video driver from the acer website to latest available and try again.

Title: Re: video drivers
Post by: morry on May 08, 2024, 12:52:27 PM

Looks like the highest version of opengl my graphics card supports is opengl2.x whats the highest version of xlights  that will still work with that or do i have other options like DirectX?

Title: Re: video drivers
Post by: Gilrock on May 08, 2024, 01:00:53 PM

OpenGL 2.0
Release date: September 7, 2004

Get a new laptop and thank me later.  That version of OpenGL is 20 years old now.  I was at a mini using someone else's laptop and was like OMG you guys have no idea how bad this is performing.  No wonder people complain about the experience with the software.