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Blender material view crashes on Windows 8.1
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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

Event Timeline

Coleman Krawczyk (cmk24) created this task.Jul 27 2014, 3:00 PM
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Bastien Montagne (mont29) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 30.Jul 27 2014, 3:45 PM
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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.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a project: GPU / Viewport.Jul 27 2014, 3:45 PM
Coleman Krawczyk (cmk24) added a comment.Jul 27 2014, 6:14 PM

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 (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Jul 27 2014, 8:07 PM
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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 (cmk24) added a comment.Jul 27 2014, 8:42 PM

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 (Kramon) added a subscriber: Maciej Jutrzenka (Kramon).EditedMay 23 2015, 8:30 PM

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.

Clément Foucault (fclem) edited projects, added EEVEE & Viewport; removed GPU / Viewport.Jun 19 2020, 11:16 PM