gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

[Jon]

Whenever I open steam I am receiving this message and the games won't work?
gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

[Tev]

Refers to OpenGL.

That should be installed alongside your graphics card drivers.

I'd probably try to clean install those if I were you.

[Stompem]

Originally posted by Jon:

Whenever I open steam I am receiving this message and the games won't work?
gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

I had the same error for the 32bit version - gldriverquery.exe

Hopefully the fix I used will work for the 64bit version as well.

Go to "...\Steam\bin"

Locate - "gldriverquery64"

Hover over it and right click your mouse or tap the file and a menu will appear..

Select - "Compatibility"

Select - "Change settings for all users"

Tick box - "Run This Program As An Administrator"

Good Luck :)

[internaut]

Originally posted by Stompem:

Originally posted by Jon:

Whenever I open steam I am receiving this message and the games won't work?
gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

I had the same error for the 32bit version - gldriverquery.exe

Hopefully the fix I used will work for the 64bit version as well.

Go to "...\Steam\bin"

Locate - "gldriverquery64"

Hover over it and right click your mouse or tap the file and a menu will appear..

Select - "Compatibility"

Select - "Change settings for all users"

Tick box - "Run This Program As An Administrator"

Good Luck :)

All that assumes one has the O/S you based the above steps on. I don't but never mind that. I saw another post that suggested deleting gldriverquery/32/64.exe but all that does is cause Steam to re-install the whole package again - - - A cold beer and hot wings becomes a warm beer and cold wings waiting.

A possible cause for this upgrade problem in gldriverquery.exe error is the hidden error explanation of "SDL2.dll was not found." Now, whatever that is, and how and where to put it, well, I know where to put it, but how, and finding it without agreeing to all the Trojans from those "free" Drivers sources is the hard part.

Hope this helps those hidden away in the dark corners of Dev-dom see this and consider a fix for the patch that was part of the revision to patch the fix - think

[The Giving One]

There have been a few helpful threads on this topic and suggestions on how to resolve it.

Always use the forum search when you have a specific error message such as this, or any issue really. This thread seems to be inactive for the most part, but just in case..............

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?gidforum=882959061466924237&include_deleted=1&q=%22gldriverquery64.exe%22

[internaut]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

There have been a few helpful threads on this topic and suggestions on how to resolve it.

Always use the forum search when you have a specific error message such as this, or any issue really. This thread seems to be inactive for the most part, but just in case..............

...

I read those tidbits in your link/s and none seem to help anyone - related to Jon's post. I think a lot of drive space and less bandwidth is wasted if there were fewer people telling other people how, when, and where to search. Too often searches come up with something old, unrelated, driven off-topic, and useless on this months newest version of whatever has been patched, fixed, upgraded or what ever. Add to that, that any new thread with a direct question can easily be ignored by the search cops.
Just sayin… ;)

[Stompem]

Hope this helps...
http://novahq.net/forum/showthread.php?p=388760#post388760

[internaut]

Originally posted by Stompem:

Hope this helps...
http://novahq.net/forum/showthread.php?p=388760#post388760

That link you provide takes me to a link that has a link that takes me to another page with a link to download a file/app/program/software for "a set of compatibility flags for the mission editors to help them run properly..." Sorry, but how does that figure in with Jon's topic "gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working"? I'm confused.

[The Giving One]

@internaut

That may have been a mistake, as that user also posted the same link in another thread about what seems to be a totally unrelated issue.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/32610/discussions/0/1489992080522681809/#c1700541698696423634

I am not sure but sometimes the URL does not refresh when you navigate Steam pages in certain ways, and so a user can sometimes post the previous link , instead of the current one that was intended. At least, for me sometimes. I look at that user's post history and found this from his or her post in this thread, number 2.........

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1621724915819088700/#c1693785035810191241

Maybe that was his or her intended link ?

[internaut]

Thanks @The Giving One for that. I was sure mixed when I followed the link and tried to figure out how it would help me with the same issue Jon described. I can cancel the appointment with my psychiatrist and that's a relief... naw, I'd better go anywhay - I saw today's news! Thanks again. i

[Hermanoteu]

Originally posted by Stompem:

Originally posted by Jon:

Whenever I open steam I am receiving this message and the games won't work?
gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

I had the same error for the 32bit version - gldriverquery.exe

Hopefully the fix I used will work for the 64bit version as well.

Go to "...\Steam\bin"

Locate - "gldriverquery64"

Hover over it and right click your mouse or tap the file and a menu will appear..

Select - "Compatibility"

Select - "Change settings for all users"

Tick box - "Run This Program As An Administrator"

Good Luck :)

worked here, thx

[Hermanoteu]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

There have been a few helpful threads on this topic and suggestions on how to resolve it.

Always use the forum search when you have a specific error message such as this, or any issue really. This thread seems to be inactive for the most part, but just in case..............

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?gidforum=882959061466924237&include_deleted=1&q=%22gldriverquery64.exe%22

no one cares about forum search nor forum police

[Stompem]

Originally posted by internaut:

Originally posted by Stompem:

I had the same error for the 32bit version - gldriverquery.exe

Hopefully the fix I used will work for the 64bit version as well.

Go to "...\Steam\bin"

Locate - "gldriverquery64"

Hover over it and right click your mouse or tap the file and a menu will appear..

Select - "Compatibility"

Select - "Change settings for all users"

Tick box - "Run This Program As An Administrator"

Good Luck :)

All that assumes one has the O/S you based the above steps on. I don't but never mind that. I saw another post that suggested deleting gldriverquery/32/64.exe but all that does is cause Steam to re-install the whole package again - - - A cold beer and hot wings becomes a warm beer and cold wings waiting.

A possible cause for this upgrade problem in gldriverquery.exe error is the hidden error explanation of "SDL2.dll was not found." Now, whatever that is, and how and where to put it, well, I know where to put it, but how, and finding it without agreeing to all the Trojans from those "free" Drivers sources is the hard part.

Hope this helps those hidden away in the dark corners of Dev-dom see this and consider a fix for the patch that was part of the revision to patch the fix - think

Sry you misunderstood. It was never suggested to delete any file(s) and it may, or may not work for every machine.

Just follow the steps above...

Check once in a while to see if the error is fixed.

[SwordZero]

Originally posted by Stompem:

Originally posted by Jon:

Whenever I open steam I am receiving this message and the games won't work?
gldriverquery64.exe has stopped working

I had the same error for the 32bit version - gldriverquery.exe

Hopefully the fix I used will work for the 64bit version as well.

Go to "...\Steam\bin"

Locate - "gldriverquery64"

Hover over it and right click your mouse or tap the file and a menu will appear..

Select - "Compatibility"

Select - "Change settings for all users"

Tick box - "Run This Program As An Administrator"

Good Luck :)

i can say this works with windows 8 x64 bit ,went into Compatibility tab click on run this program in Compatibility mode for Windows 8 also clicked the box for Run this Program as admin and the eoor for gldriver.exe has stopped working no longer comes up

[Angelhearth]

I just found this in "Startup" in Task Manager. Tried to find some info on it. Have had some strange errors after I started using this PC (New build), with Steam. I don't think I've seen it in Startup before? Also, both gldriverquery and gldriverquery64 are there, why? I reinstalled Steam again earlier today, to see if it got better. What I noticed is that the PC stops up, at times, when I play Steam. A couple of times the music (Spotify) has started stuttering, and stuttering, and stuttering, until everything stops (I can still move the mouse pointer). Just updated nVidia drivers (seems a new one was released a few days ago (thank you, GeForce Experience, for telling me), hopefully that will help). Anyway, as I started with: what is this? The only things I find are the typical "Remove this and that with our exceptionally TRUSTWORTHY, piece of..." links. Plus some links to Steam, where no one actually explains what it is.

[Bacon]

I had to install the Visual C++ 2013 runtimes manually to solve the problem.