McOsu refusing to start, telling me my GPU doesn't support OpenGL 3.0

[̶S̶w̶e̶r̶v̶i̶n̶]

I have posted about this a couple times in the bug reports topic but I don't think my posts are going through as I cannot see them to try and edit them/see responses.

I have recently had to update my graphics card drivers as I was having system-wide issues. Before doing this, McOsu worked fine (apart from the previously mentioned system-wide things). After updating, it loads to a black window, with a popup box telling me my GPU doesn't support OpenGL 3.0. I looked it up and my GPU does infact support OpenGL all the way up to 4.5.

Specs: I7, GTX960M, 16gb ram. Running Windows 10 64-Bit.

edit: I have tried reinstalling McOsu and all of the betas. The closest that one got to loading was the Windows-specific one, not much further though. After closing the popup, it stays in it's black window for a few seconds before crashing. All other versions crash instantly upon closing the box.

[McKay]

Your posts are appearing in the bug report thread, all of them, and I already responded, see here[imgur.com] and here[imgur.com].

[McKay]

Here is a copy of what I wrote:

Originally posted by Kawaii Femboy:

Sorry if this is a duplicate report, I just made one and can't find it anywhere and wanted to edit it. McOsu won't open as it says my GPU doesn't support opengl3.0 after i updated my gpu drivers. I looked it up and my GTX 960M does support up to opengl4.5, so it is definitely an issue with McOsu rather than my gpu/gpu drivers.

Specs: i7 + 960M + 16gb ram. Running 64bit windows 10.

You somehow managed to break your GPU drivers. Try running the game after every one of the following steps until fixed:
1) Reboot your system
2) Check for Windows updates, let them install if necessary and reboot again
3) DDU[www.guru3d.com] your graphics drivers completely, download them fresh from Nvidia[www.nvidia.com] directly, install and reboot again

Originally posted by Kawaii Femboy:

I looked it up and my GTX 960M does support up to opengl4.5, so it is definitely an issue with McOsu rather than my gpu/gpu drivers.

No, this does not definitely mean that it is an issue with McOsu. The game will use whatever OpenGL context is given to it by Windows (and your graphics driver). The game does not have control over your operating system nor drivers. Try running another OpenGL game, like Minecraft (Java Edition). It will crash too (on your system, in that state).

[̶S̶w̶e̶r̶v̶i̶n̶]

I have followed these steps and it still isn't working. Minecraft isn't running either.

[McKay]

Originally posted by Kawaii Femboy:

I have followed these steps and it still isn't working. Minecraft isn't running either.

As expected.

Now, since you are on a laptop with an i7, this means that you have 2 graphics cards. The fast dedicated Nvidia one, and the slow crappy integrated one on your CPU.

Find and install the correct graphics driver for the Intel graphics card on your CPU: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/80939/Graphics

You need both graphics drivers (Nvidia + Intel) to work correctly.

[̶S̶w̶e̶r̶v̶i̶n̶]

Yes it worked! tysm!! Not many game developers are as dedicated as you to helping their players. Mad respect.

[McKay]

Originally posted by Kawaii Femboy:

Yes it worked! tysm!! Not many game developers are as dedicated as you to helping their players. Mad respect.

Glad to hear. Multi-GPU laptops are always a bit of a pain, if you want more fps for free then try connecting an external monitor to the HDMI/DP/DVI port of your laptop, and run the game on that external monitor, you will get a lot more performance out of it (especially in osu).

[urassam]

I tried to do that too but it didn't work. I tried to update the AMD and intel graphics driver, and it still didn't work.
-Intel Pentium Gold G5400

-Rx 550

-Intel UHD graphics 610