chjoco15 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 For some reason, whenever i choose to open or save a .dds image in gimp, with this plugin, it gives me a message, saying some stuff like p;ugin could not open image and 'Gl_arb_texture_compression is not supported by your current opengl implementation'im guessing its something wrong with opengl. can someone please tell me where to get open gl for windows 2000/xp?Or is there something else wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResidentWeevil2077 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 Hmm, that sounds unusual. Well (and I must warn you that I have no knowledge about things like this), I can say that it has nothing to do with finding and d/ling OpenGL (as this is only a specification, and NOT an actual graphics langauge). From what I can tell, it might have something to do with your graphics card drivers (what Windows uses in order to recognize the script functions and other graphics-specific language calls). Seeing as this is the most likely the case, if your card is old, you'd have to get a new one (my ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, wihich supports SM 3.0, or HDR, was $250 CDN at the local electronics store, so you're better off with at least a mid-range vid-card). I use the exact same DDS plugin as you, and so far nothing has gone wrong regarding failures to open or save DDDS textures because of old graphics drivers (I keep my drivers up to date). It's kinda hard to explain it in layman's terms, so I hope you get the gist of what I'm talking about. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help to you, tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramul Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 What version of GIMP and GTK+ are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjoco15 Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 i am using version 2.10.6 for gtk, and gimp 2.2.13.I am almost sure it has nothing to do with my graphics cards, as the same thing happenms on both my computer, one which has a very expensive graphics card (something like an ati all in wonder or something) the hard drive on my good computer got accidentally wiped, and before that, it worked. So it could be something to do with my drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResidentWeevil2077 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 OK, I did a quick check on http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html, and it seems you have the current versions of everything (except for GIMP 2.2.14), so I honestly can't say for sure what could be going on. It might be because your HD got wiped, I'm not certain, but maybe uninstall GIMP and GTK+, then reinstall both (GTK+ first). If it still won't read and write DDS textures, then I'd say you're royally buggered :wacko: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramul Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 It is worth checking to see if you have the correct drivers. I had a GeForce 3 that struggled to run GLTron. Turned out it was using Microsoft's default VGA driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjoco15 Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 well i am royally buggered. Re downloaded and installed everything, save bug. On the dds plugin page, under downloads (where there are 3 links, source, win32 binaries and something else), is it the second link that i should click? I have tried the other 2, but all the files make no sense... edit: tried updating drivers, didnt work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTerminator2004 Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 well i am royally buggered. Re downloaded and installed everything, save bug. On the dds plugin page, under downloads (where there are 3 links, source, win32 binaries and something else), is it the second link that i should click? I have tried the other 2, but all the files make no sense... edit: tried updating drivers, didnt work... It is either the second one or the third one. The first is the source code, which you only want if you want to build it yourself- this is the type used by all the ones in the plugin registry. The second one is a standard Windows installer in a .zip file (I take it you extracred it all before you installed it?), and the third is another Windows one using software compression, which is only needed on these graphics cards: (original Radeon, VE, 7000, 7200, 7500, some Radeon IGP), r200 (Radeon 8500, 9100, 9000, 9200, IGP9100 (RS300)), i830 (i830, i845, i852, i855, i865 - of course only the chipset versions which actually have integrated graphics...) and i915 driver (btw the i830 driver is considered obsolete, use the i915 driver instead.If that doesn't make any sense, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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