I'm running blender on a laptop with i945 GM Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset family, win32 XP; video driver is the latest version according to Intel - igxprd32 / XP When i try any of Open Gl render viewport commands i get error message Failed to create offscreen Open GL buffer, unknown Terminal shows no error. I don't want even mention that GLSL and Single/ Multi Texture views show only greyscale something; only way to see texturing is to render. Is this expected for i945 video, if not, what could be the cure for that (if there is one.)? I have heard Intel onboard graphics chipsets don't have great support for Open GL, and I think I remember other users bringing this up before. Some google work will probably supply more useful information. I kinda did google research which did not give me anything to rely on except Intel assurances that Open GL is supported. maybe i simply had a lack of fantasy on key words. To be bit more specific - problem child is Toshiba Tecra A8 which i did restore back to working condition. Since it runs on latest available drivers from Intel i'm loosing any hope on further improvement. Anyhow - thanks for answering. Search google with blender and the error message in the first post and you'll see lots of hits. There have been issues with Intel graphics cards. Try changing the draw method in user preferences, update to latest drivers, update to latest blender versions What it basically comes down to is the Intel graphics are crap and if you want blender to work properly use dedicated graphics card. Last edited by Richard Marklew; 17- Aug-12 at 15:59.
Member Guru Videocard: 9600 GT 512mb PCIx16 2.0 Processor: Phenom 9850 BE 3 Ghz LQ'd Mainboard: ASUS M3 N78- EMH Memory: Ge IL 2 GB ( PC2 6400)x4 Soundcard: S. B. Extigy w/ Cambridge S PSU: Antec 750w, 23:24 | posts: 51 | Location: Spokane WA yeah that sucks, I have a dell latitude d500 that my dad gave me and it could use some help too. when you were looking for opengl stuff did you find anything on overclocking these things? Videocard: Processor: Mainboard: Memory: Soundcard: PSU:, 23:32 | posts: n/a you can't emulate opengl2.0 opengl 2.0 is the shader language, you require a video card capable of shader model the intel chip is a fixed function chip and can not handle opengl 2.0 it should be capable of opengl1.5 though. its strange it isn't, blame intel for not using decent integrated graphics. Newbie Videocard: Processor: Mainboard: Memory: Soundcard: PSU:, 09:26 | posts: 12 The Intel915gm chip supports only Opengl 1.4. It supports pixel and vertex shader 2.0. It is a Direct X 9 card. But it has no T s support that Open GL 1.4 Videocard: Processor: Mainboard: Memory: Soundcard.
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