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Kilobyte

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Registered: 2014-03-22

Posts: 13

[solved] glx version 1.4 on a OpenGL 4.4 supporting card - why?

Hey guys,

After already having some trouble with installing drivers, i still cannot get most games to work. Steam claims lack of direct rendering. I am member of group video. Furthermore, this is my OpenGL version:

$ glxinfo | egrep 'OpenGL|glx'
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.32
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.32
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 NVIDIA 340.32 340.32
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

So, most games do not run on this, which is unfortunate.

Last edited by Kilobyte (2014-08-28 23:11:10)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [solved] glx version 1.4 on a OpenGL 4.4 supporting card - why?

GLX never went beyond 1.4, and never will. It's basically deprecated. This only matters for indirect rendering anyway, and practically nothing uses that. For direct rendering you have 4.4, and that's what matters:

OpenGL core profile version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.32
...
OpenGL version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.32

Your issue with Steam is elsewhere, a clash between libraries shipped with Steam and system libraries - do a forum search, you'll find a solution. Another possibility is you didn't install 32bit nvidia drivers (lib32-nvidia-utils).

Last edited by Gusar (2014-08-27 10:17:08)