Bug#833622: obs-studio: Fail to start with "Failed to create OpenGL context."

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Aug 7 17:50:05 UTC 2016


[Sebastian Ramacher]
> And what did you expect to happen when the Description contains "Note
> that OBS Studio requires an OpenGL 3.2 compatible video card"?

I guess I expected some understandable error message letting me know
what the problem was, for example listing which OpenGL version I had and
which version I needed, given that I do not really know OpenGL version I
got. :)

I would have been helped a lot by a message reporting for example this:

  Unable to run OBS because it need OpenGL version 3.2 and you only got
  OpenGL version X.Y.

  You might need different video hardware for this to work.

or something like that.

I did not expect a popup stating 'Failed to initialize video:
Unspecified error'.  That message is not really explaining much, and do
not really provide any hint about what is the problem.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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