OpenGL 1.5 with Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family (laptop)

[michelb]

I have a new laptop, running under Windows Vista Home Premium, and with Intel Core Duo Centrino T7300 for the mother board, and Mobile Intel 965 Chipset Family for the graphics.
I tried to run the Hyperion demo, but half of them fail because of "OpenGL 1.5 not supported".
However, I downloaded latest drivers from Intel, and intall them for the graphics, but still, it does not work.

Anything I can do?
Michel

[JeGX]

Hi Michel,
I'm afraid your integrated graphics card is not enough power to run GLSL demos. This kind of graphics chipset
is well known for its weakness in 3d apps. But you can do 2 things:

first, try to install these drivers (unless you have already installed them):
   
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista 32-bits (version 15.6.1)

After download GPU Caps Viewer, run it and select the "Tools" tab and click on "Full XML export"


export the XML file


and send me that file  (jegx AT ozone3d DOT net).

[JeGX]

okay, from the GPU Caps Viewer report, your graphics chipset seems to support asm pixel shader only (low level shading language).
Hyperion demos require GLSL so the GPU must support high level shading languages such as GLSL, Cg or D3D's HLSL.

But from this thread, the GMA X3000 GPU seems to be SM2/3-capable: http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=129343

So I think the problem comes from the bad OpenGL drivers. Solution: wait for new drivers from Intel and test, test and test again 

[Groove]

I saw such horible behaviours on the Intel chips recently... They really should be ashamed. Detection of VBO in the extensions string but no function pointers available...  On Vista it's even worse with crazy things happing with multiple contexes and it seems not possible to share contextes ... Well, I think taht Intel wish to make it's come back (or just make progresses) on the graphic side but... they do need lot of work! Not better for ATI that simply seems to stop working on they OpenGL drivers ... The tesselator unit is a great idea but if it's not explosed on DirectX neither than OpenGL... Their dedicated R2VB thing of X1*** pixel buffer object, geometry shaders, texture array, etc... The features are on the metal but the drivers belong to trash

 

[JeGX]

you're absolutely right mate, shame on Intel OpenGL drivers