unable to create opengl context

[Radar]

says something about opengl and opengl context that can't be opened....halp?

[[STA] Cheeto]

update your drivers. I was on 2 year old nVidia drivers because I liked its stability, but this forced me to update.

[Radar]

idk if i can update them
my pc is very old and sucky

[mzahniser]

Can you copy and paste the exact message? The game targets OpenGL 3.3, so if you have a very old computer it may have trouble.

[Radar]

Unable to create OpenGL context! Check if your system supports OpenGL 3.0. (SDL message: "could not create GL context: ")

[mzahniser]

Yeah, it's probably old drivers. Do you know if your computer can play other games that use OpenGL shaders (GLSL) instead of the legacy functions? And, what OS are you on?

[Radar]

win 7

[Radar]

and yes,i can run other games with opengl

[dezzikthegrey]

same issue, windows 7, inspiron 1545

[Articulate Llama]

Pretty sure anyone on older drivers or chipsets (5y+) wont be able to play this due to the opengl 3.0 reqs.

My drivers for w7 dont support it I know that, though I am on a GMA 4500M chipset.

[Digital Harp]

I'm having this same issue, but I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce GT 360M which should support OpenGL 4.5....

I didn't get the impression that this game was graphics intensive either, am I wrong? Anyway, if anyone figures out a fix for this issue I'd be thankful to hear it as I'd love to try out this game.

[Grrrrrrr]

So..my Notebook here doesn't support OpenGL 3.0
Any chance to lower the requirements in future? Would love to play that game when I'm on the road.

[mzahniser]

The game makes extensive use of OpenGL shaders and other features that were not available prior to version 3.0. For example, with an older version of OpenGL the function I use to change the ship colors to reflect what faction they belong to is not available.

[Articulate Llama]

Originally posted by mzahniser:

The game makes extensive use of OpenGL shaders and other features that were not available prior to version 3.0. For example, with an older version of OpenGL the function I use to change the ship colors to reflect what faction they belong to is not available.

All well and good, but it doesnt change the fact that you made a low end game, graphically, and forced people to use modern equipment to run it.

Many people with low end PC look for games like this, I fear you have alienated a portion of your prospective audiance by forcing opengl 3.0.

Take a look at an upcoming indie title called Balrum, it started on gl 2.0 then went to gl 3.0, but it has the option to enable the old renderer and play the game normally with lowered effects.

Its a good way to get as many customers as possible. In fact Hollywood does it all the time, that is why we have action movies with romance and suspense and some horror, because they want to target as many audiances as possible.

[Grrrrrrr]

"Customer" is probably the wrong term. There is no shop and it costs nothing.
But indeed, I would trade that faction-color thing for the sake of playing that game on my notebook.

[Xenial Jesse]

Just a note that even though I just wrote a game for OpenGL 3.3, I still had to update drivers. Works now though.