Blender material view crashes on Windows 8.1 #41208

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Coleman Krawczyk · 2014-07-27T15:00:35+02:00

Coleman Krawczyk commented

2014-07-27 15:00:35 +02:00

System Information
OS: Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
CPU: Intel Core i7-4702MQ
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: Nvida GeForce GT 750M (driver 337.88)

Blender Version
Broken: v2.71 (official release, Hash: 9337574)

Short description of error
Switching to material view crashes blender every time.
I have only been able to recreate this bug on Windows 8, it works fine on my other computer that run Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Load default scene
Switch to Cycles
Go to material view and blender crashes

**System Information** OS: Windows 8.1 (64 bit) CPU: Intel Core i7-4702MQ RAM: 16 GB GPU: Nvida GeForce GT 750M (driver 337.88) **Blender Version** Broken: v2.71 (official release, Hash: 9337574) **Short description of error** Switching to material view crashes blender every time. I have *only* been able to recreate this bug on Windows 8, it works fine on my other computer that run Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Load default scene Switch to Cycles Go to material view and blender crashes

Coleman Krawczyk commented

2014-07-27 15:00:35 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Coleman Krawczyk commented

2014-07-27 15:00:35 +02:00

Added subscriber: @cmk24

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-07-27 15:45:18 +02:00

Added subscriber: @mont29

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-07-27 15:45:18 +02:00

Most likely yet another OGL driver issue… Pleas try to put this dll next to your blender.exe, and see whether it fixes the issue.

You could also try to update your driver, 337 is not the latest one afaik.

Most likely yet another OGL driver issue… Pleas try to put [this dll](http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/win64/opengl32.dll) next to your blender.exe, and see whether it fixes the issue. You could also try to update your driver, 337 is not the latest one afaik.

Coleman Krawczyk commented

2014-07-27 18:14:24 +02:00

Adding that dll does fix the issue, but it also makes blender run about 3x slower, and when I open a large scene blender becomes unresponsive.

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-07-27 20:07:29 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2014-07-27 20:07:29 +02:00

Bastien Montagne self-assigned this 2014-07-27 20:07:29 +02:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-07-27 20:07:29 +02:00

Unfortunately, this confirms that your current graphic driver is buggy, and breaks on some OpenGL situation (that dll is the reference software implementation of OpenGL, so it is of course slow as hell and unusable in production, but it helps sorting out whether it’s a Blender issue, or a Driver issue).

Thanks for the report, but this is not a Blender bug - 'generalist' drivers/GPUs are really an issue these days with OpenGL, nvidia used to be a reference. :/

Unfortunately, this confirms that your current graphic driver is buggy, and breaks on some OpenGL situation (that dll is the reference software implementation of OpenGL, so it is of course slow as hell and unusable in production, but it helps sorting out whether it’s a Blender issue, or a Driver issue). Thanks for the report, but this is not a Blender bug - 'generalist' drivers/GPUs are really an issue these days with OpenGL, nvidia used to be a reference. :/

Coleman Krawczyk commented

2014-07-27 20:42:48 +02:00

What you said gave me an idea to go poking around in my Nvidia settings. By setting blender to run in "high performance" mode it fixed the issue. I think it was originally set to use my laptop's internal graphics card for blender, so it was not seeing the Nvidia drives.

Maciej Jutrzenka commented

2015-05-23 20:30:33 +02:00

Added subscriber: @MaciejJutrzenka

Maciej Jutrzenka commented

2015-05-23 20:30:33 +02:00

windows 8. blender 2,75 2.74 2.73a there is a crash. on laptop internal GPU. would be awesome if u can fix this.

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Blender material view crashes on Windows 8.1 #41208