[Solved]Black screen by starting first document
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- Build-0-Matic
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Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
That's kinda strange... on my version of 0.18 the opengl32sw.dll file is nowhere to be found?
Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
Done so on Dec 21:
chrisb wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 12:25 am Thanks for this solution. Excellent that it works for Qt5 as well! I added it to the Known OS specific issues.
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Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
Thank you so much @Build-0-Matic !!!
I copied "opengl32.dll" into the mentioned "bin" folder and the FreeCAD 0.18 black screen problem was instantly fixed / On Windows 10. What a joy you gave me!
I copied "opengl32.dll" into the mentioned "bin" folder and the FreeCAD 0.18 black screen problem was instantly fixed / On Windows 10. What a joy you gave me!
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Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
I'm really glad to help
Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
And why doesn't Microsoft fix this issue, was the issue already reported to them?
P.S. As Windows 10 is still officially supported.
P.S. As Windows 10 is still officially supported.
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Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
It worked for me also on Windows 10 - I just downloaded the 64 bit version, extracted it “here” (the download folder) then copied and pasted it into the bin folder. Thanks Build-O-Matic - what a great forum this is.
Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
Big thanks for this dll fix. Works a treat
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Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
man... you just made my day!Build-0-Matic wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:38 pm For FreeCAD, just copy the modified opengl32.dll into the Program Files\FreeCAD 0.18\bin folder.
https://fdossena.com/?p=mesa/index.frag
Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
Thanks a lot @Build-O-Matic , this also also fixed my FreeCAD
This issue also occurs in other software, e.g. KiCAD as well (needed a workaround there also)
Build-0-Matic wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:38 pm .....
The issue seems to be mainly with embedded graphics accelerators.
For FreeCAD, just copy the modified opengl32.dll into the Program Files\FreeCAD 0.18\bin folder.
Here is the link to the DLL file.
https://fdossena.com/?p=mesa/index.frag
The file is compiled by Federico Dossena and not me.
This issue also occurs in other software, e.g. KiCAD as well (needed a workaround there also)
Re: [Solved]Black screen by starting first document
Build-O-Matic did it!
Thanks so much!
Aryeh
Thanks so much!
Aryeh