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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001189 | FSSCP | --------- | public | 2007-01-01 18:23 | 2007-01-20 21:59 |
| Reporter | Falcon128 | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | 3.6.9 | ||||
| Summary | 0001189: open GL not supported by graphics card | ||||
| Description | Error: The required OpenGL extension '' is not supported by your current driver version or graphics card. You can either use the Direct3D rendering engine (non-FRED builds only) or update your video card drivers. File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\graphics\gropenglextension.cpp Line: 392 [This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable] Call stack: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ||||
| Additional Information | I have a Core 2 Duo 6400 w/ 2048mb of memory, a geforce 7600GS with 512mb of Ram with the lastest driver 93.71 from nvidia. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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In your graphics card control panel, something for OpenGL in particular, there is probably an option about using shorter extension strings. I can't remember what the option is called in particular, but if you search the the HLP forums for "The required OpenGL extension" then I'm sure you will find reference to it. Basically, to support older games NVIDIA added a driver option to keep the advertised extension string short enough to avoid crashing games which can't handle a long string. Unfortunately FSO doesn't support this, and you will end up with the error message that you have gotten. The option is supposed to be disabled by default, but I've seen enough people report this problem that I question whether it really is or not. :) |
