Hi Marcus,
Thanks for your reply to my question. The graphics accelerator is from the
Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family.
Can I download OpenGL 2.1 from SourceForge, and if I do, can I simply
install it so that Avogadro 2 can use it?
Thanks,
Steve
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanw...@kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Steven Petrovic <petro...@sou.edu> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I am running Windows Vista on a Toshiba laptop (2 GB RAM, 1.46 GHz
> processor
> > speed). Although I have no trouble running Avogadro 1 on my machine, and
> I
> > do so often, Avogadro 2 always crashes before I have a chance to draw any
> > atoms. Do you know of any issues with anti-virus software (Avast!) or
> with
> > Avogadro 1 & 2 unable to co-exist on the same PC of this vintage
> (purchased
> > in 2007)?
>
> I wonder if this might be an OpenGL issue, someone else reported an
> issue. Avogadro 2 requires OpenGL 2.1, it is possible that the
> detection code is not working as expected and crashing rather than
> reporting the issue correctly. Do you know what graphics card/driver
> your machine uses?
>
> I will take a look, one problem I have is that I don't have good
> access to a machine without OpenGL 2.1 support. I have tested this on
> a Windows 7 machine (real) with an Intel embedded GPU, several VMs
> running Windows XP and Vista. I will see if I can set up a better test
> case to ensure we fail gracefully under those conditions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
>
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