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juliusCaesar

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Registered: 2013-09-29

Posts: 2

How to get OpenGL 4 on an intel/nvidia laptop

Hi,

I have the following setup:

A lenovo T430 with intel/nvidia graphics.

I managed to get the nvidia driver and bumblebee installed. So far I am able to run games such as L4D on my machine.

However, Metro 2033, requires OpenGL4. Right now I have the mesa-10.3.5 implementation of OpenGL, which provides OpenGL 3.0.

Can anybody give me some hints.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: How to get OpenGL 4 on an intel/nvidia laptop

Mesa doesn't support OpenGL 4 yet, try running Metro through bumblebee / nvidia driver

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PiroXiline

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Registered: 2013-08-06

Posts: 4

Re: How to get OpenGL 4 on an intel/nvidia laptop

NVIDIA's proprietary graphic card driver doesn't depends on mesa anyhow, Mesa is used with Intel driver on your laptop.

You have Nvidia NVS 5000M Series videocard (NV5x).

From NVIDIA Wiki article

For GeForce 8000/9000 and 100-300 series cards [NV5x, NV8x, NV9x and NVAx] from around 2006-2010, install the nvidia-340xx or nvidia-340xx-lts package, available in the official repositories.
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If you are on 64-bit and also need 32-bit OpenGL support, you must also install the equivalent lib32 package from the multilib repository (e.g. lib32-nvidia-libgl, lib32-nvidia-340xx-libgl or lib32-nvidia-304xx-libgl).
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Reboot. The nvidia package contains a file which blacklists the nouveau module, so rebooting is necessary. 

Be sure noveau deleted from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf if you had it, I suggest you don't need it for now.

Shawn8901

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Registered: 2013-05-07

Posts: 38

Re: How to get OpenGL 4 on an intel/nvidia laptop

Hi,

L4D is a steam game, and in case you want to launch the game via "normal" steam behavior, you can change the launcher settings in steam to start the game with bumblebee (working bumblebee is required )

Therefor go to Steam, right click on L4D --> Settings --> Start Options 
and insert

optirun %command%

Steam will embed the launch-command

If you have the game running please do not forget to mark as solved.

Greetings

Last edited by Shawn8901 (2014-12-23 16:17:46)