Opengl 2.1 or higher is required! on Windows 10

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sure, if your machine allows for that - which we don’t know? Intel-NUC or most Laptops/Netbooks will have problems.

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Greetings,

         My operating system is 32bit Windows 10 pro and it occurred to me that possibly the issue only applies to the 64 bit version of Win 10 ???
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I am running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and PCBnew does not display a window. I’m using a Philips 4K monitor driven by DisplayPort using an NVIDIA GTX 960 - apparently my driver supports OpenGL ES 3.2.

This issue has been posted here for some time now, a couple of months, is there some chance of a fix? Currently I run KiCad in a VMware virtual machine using Ubuntu where it seems to function OK - but should I really have to … ? :confused:

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Bugs to be evaluated / fixed should be posted at:

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You can ask a question here without having to report a bug first.

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It will run on the default graphic mode but not on OpenGL mode and super slow on Cairo.

I have since migrated fully into Linux and running KiCad daily builds happily.
There’s no looking back…

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Which Linux and desktop are you using?

Rick

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Which Linux and desktop are you using?

Ubuntu 14.04 on the same machine as before.

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Thanks. That’s where I’m headed.The desktop I was referring to is the graphical one.

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Hi,
I’m evaluating to buy a GeForce GTX 950 to be used w kicad under win10 64bit…
does anyone has this config?

Or could someone suggests a working in win10 64b, middle price Video Card?

thank you
Maurice

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I have an old GT610 and it runs perfectly fine with kicad (linux). I don’t think you need a gamer-card just to do layout.

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@madworm

I use kicad 3D quite heavily, so my requirements are for 3d-viewer rendering

moreover my query and the topic is on kicad’s Windows 10 OpenGL problems …

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The GT610 runs Portal II without any issues. Shooter? Quake4: no problems. I doubt kicad has higher requirements for 3D rendering than any fairly recent 3D game.

If Micro$oft artificially cripples “old” cards on winblows 10, I don’t know.

Just don’t waste your money :wink:

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but you haven’t tried in windows 10 do you?
so I’m asking advises for windows 10 (64b)…
thanks

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maui,

Just make sure the drivers are available (OpenGL above v2.1) for Windows.
I didn’t have luck with that after upgrading to Windows 10. Chipset maker and Microsoft doesn’t want to make newer drivers for my 2009 machine. Ended up running Linux now.

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@rocketscream
thank you for your feedback!
I’m going to get it!!! :smile:

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I forgot to give a feedback… it took me quite a while to upgrade my pcs…
I’m running kicad 4 or dev release on a win10 64b machine with a geforce gtx950 card and it is blazing fast!!!
OpenGL or Legacy canvas…
Thanx all for advices :smiley:
Maurice

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ask how do I install the drivers and put OpenGL 2.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 ???

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Ubuntu 14.04 went out of support a VERY long time ago

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