Sometime time back I started getting crashes when trying to run KiCad in Opengl mode on an older laptop with an Intel graphics card on Windows. My card’s driver did not support Opengl 2.1
I have successfully been running the Mesa library and have not had any issues with the Opengl canvas.
The library can be downloaded from this git page.
The quick deploy process is not the easiest, just make sure you type in the full path to your Kicad’s bin directory when prompted.
I have a mid-range Toshiba Satellite, circa 2011, that may have problems with OpenGL. At least, it’s stuck on the Cairo canvas and I can’t get it into OpenGL I seem to recall that at one time, OpenGL worked. I won’t put any effort into correcting the problem right now - it’s not a main work computer, and I’m running a Nightly build from last February, so I’ll wait until I upgrade to Version 5 before I worry about it.
Yeah, but I’m specifically curious about age, because I’ve seen some people acting like there’s no need to support systems that unfathomably old and I have a hunch they’re not actually that old…