Hi!
I am using latest stable which is at the moment 9.0.3. This post is “kind of” a follow up to the following post, system version and settings being the same since then:
In the original post, the solution was to have latest Nvidia drivers for my Geforce graphics card installed AND having Windows 10 explicitely set to let it make use of that graphics adapter when using KiCad (instead of using the onboard graphics of the processor)
While with those two actions, the problem disappeard, the very same problem reappeared. After trying to narrow it down I found that when I have KiCad open and Windows changes the display’s light/color settings according to the “nightlight” settings in the OS, one of the next few actions in KiCad (mostly PCB Editor) very likely leads to the same “Missing GL version” error with the same behaviour that I have to force close the application via the task manager.
It happened about 5 times now and definitely correlates with having KiCad running while the OS switches between “daylight/nightlight” settings. To be sure we are talking about the same thing the option I mean ist the one configured with
Edit: In my case I have currently a scheduled daytime which acts as switch regarding when to use the “warmer” nightloght colors insteas of the default display settings.
Is KiCad still showing in full version info (after you’ve tried to open an editor in Accelerated mode or the 3D viewer) that it’s using the NVIDIA GPU?
Did you add all KiCad executables to Windows Graphics settings, or just kicad.exe, and running the PCB editor (pcbnew.exe) standalone?
I will try some more (while doing some productive stuff) and calls the version info regularly , maybe there happens some switch back to onboard graphics during the nightlight change, although that would be a Windows bug, but who knows? I will report back within the next days If I find new insights
