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Cant Create GL Rendering Context

Rid Escher
Registered User
Join date: 10 May 2003
Posts: 3
05-16-2003 13:48
wtf? The game worked just fine before I rebooted. I removed a 2nd video card but nothing about my primary one changed. Why all of a sudden will the game not run? Even after a reinstall...
Doug Linden
Linden Lab Developer
Join date: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
05-17-2003 08:29
Rid, this is a problem that we occasionally see that we haven't been able to track down, as it appears to be an OS/driver problem, and doesn't seem to be specific to Second Life.

Every so often, usually after a hardware/driver configuration change, Windows seems to decide that it's unable to create an OpenGL rendering context, which we need in order to do hardware-accelerated 3D. When this happened to us, we did some testing on other OpenGL apps (Counterstrike ;)), and they failed to work either. We found that rebooting your system will solve the problem. If it continues to fail, send me a private message and I'll try and see if there's more debugging that I can do.

- Doug