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OpenGL support broken after updating GPU drivers

After updating NVidia Drivers to 378.49 on EVGA GTX 1080 FTW I started getting this exception using libGDX.

Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: OpenGL is not supported by the video driver.
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.createDisplayPixelFormat(LwjglGraphics.java:229)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.setupDisplay(LwjglGraphics.java:174)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:138)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:120)
Caused by: org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:253)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglGraphics.createDisplayPixelFormat(LwjglGraphics.java:220)
    ... 3 more

OpenGL Extensions Viewer shows that OpenGL version 4.5 available on my GPU.

I've tried forcing jrm executables to run on my NVidia GPU (they actually were running on it, but I just wanted to ensure)

Other OpenGL-based apps run fine. Also, I've tried to run a compiled libGDX game from Steam and it seems to run just fine.

I've tried to use different JRMs with different Java versions. I performed a clean driver reinstall and rebooted several times.

The exception appears in both Android Studio and IntelliJ.

config.allowSoftwareMode = true; doesn't work (and shouldn't). Windows only supports software rendering for OpenGL 1.1 when libGTX requires 2.0.

Solution

  • I have the same issue.

    Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" 
    com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: OpenGL is not supported by the video driver.
    I just downloaded and installed the previous driver from Nvidia 376.33 and it solved my issue (windows 10 64bit).