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MC-153714

Old graphics card warning on Mac despite having recent hardware

I see a warning in the menu (screen). My MacBook Pro using openGL 4.1, why i see it?

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mrfloris

iMac 2017 model, AMD 580 GPU 8gb ram, .. Apple has had 3.3 openGL since 2007, .. this is clearly a bug. 

ednoria

I get the same message and I have a 2017 MacBook Pro running openGL 4.1 – seems to be a mixup somewhere.

boq

I'm not sure if it works on Macs, but can you attach output of 'glxinfo' command?

ednoria

glxinfo is an X11 program, so running it reports on the version used by Quartz/X11. If I run "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" I get:

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon Pro 560 OpenGL Engine

OpenGL version string: 2.1 ATI-2.9.26

OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

OpenGL extensions:

However, according to Apple, the OpenGL used by the MacOS on my system is 4.1 (as seen here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202823)

Hopefully this is helpful!

LogicalGeekBoy

I'd just like to add that I've seen that message today and I think it's in error. I have an iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB. According to Apple here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202823, that card should support up to OpenGL 4.1. I hope that helps.

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Simon Lambert

Yes, it's fixed on mac too 😉 

Robert Bowles

Confirmed fixed in 1.14.3-pre2 on Linux 🙂

Jay Macdonald

Yes. 1.14.3-pre2 makes the error go away on my Mac Pro with after market video card.

I don't know if this is relevant, but F3 Debug still stays OpenGL Engine 2.1 - maybe it's supposed to, dunno, not my area of expertise. 

boq

Just as an explanation, snippet from OpenGl wiki:

Platform Issue (MacOSX): When MacOSX 10.7 introduced support for OpenGL beyond 2.1, they also introduced the core/compatibility dichotomy. However, they did not introduce support for the compatibility profile itself. Instead, MacOSX gives you a choice: core profile for versions 3.2 or higher, or just version 2.1. There is no way to get access to features after 2.1 and still access the Fixed Function Pipeline.

Same applies to some Linux drivers (Mesa seems to report 3.0 in compatibility mode)

Gobbi

Bartosz Bok, what's with the problem of loading a MacOS CPU? Please, check: MC-153712

Gobbi

boq

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