[vtk-developers] Windows Intel HD 2000 not working with new rendering backend

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Hi,

I have a Windows 7 64 bit machine, glewinfo offers the following summary:

GLEW version 1.13.0
Reporting capabilities of pixelformat 3
Running on a Intel(R) HD Graphics 2000 from Intel
OpenGL version 3.1.0 - Build 9.17.10.3347 is supported

In a new Tomviz build I see the following failure:

ERROR: In C:\bbd\e04ad53c\build\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\Rendering\OpenGL2\vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
line 590

vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000000029E7990): GL version 2.1 with the
gpu_shader4 extension is not supported by your graphics driver but is
required for the new OpenGL rendering backend. Please update your
OpenGL driver. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have version
10.6.5 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports OpenGL 3.2.

Is our effective minimum version for OpenGL 3.2 now? It looks like I
have the latest drivers, and so I am guessing I would need to switch
back to the old backend or buy a graphics card for the machine. The
3.2 section looks like this,


>From an application development perspective, is there API that I could
use to present a friendlier message to our users? Is 3.2 effectively
the minimum, it looks like this card has everything up to 3.1 and then
lacks several 3,2 features.