simulator crash with Lenovo thinkbad X1 carbon, windows 7 64bit

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#1

Hi,

I’m a complete newbie here. I just installed the windows sdk on a Lenovo X1 carbon, windows 7 64bit with 5500 graphics driver. The message coming from the tool that the crash is probably due to an out of date display driver helped. I tried downloading the latest driver from the Intel website (it’s a 5500 graphics chip from Intel) but it would not install out of the box, since this driver is not approved/tested by lenovo. The lenovo website doesn’t let you download the latest driver as well, since they probably haven’t tested it much.

In the end what worked for me is a manual install of the driver. I extracted the driver package from Intel using winrar, then through device manager I asked windows to install the driver manually using the “have disk” button, pointed it to the location of the new intel driver, it installed correctly.

I needed a reboot to make it actually work. I do get a message from windows that the driver may not be compatibla bla bla bla, but it works still. I’ll update more if I see problem with the driver.

Time to do the “get started” stuff now :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Uri

#2

It’s really hard for me to understand that here in 2017, that you can find out of date drivers that don’t support OpenGL 2.1. That was the standard back in 2006. Yet I’ve seen Windows 10 not support it on certain Intel cards.

Anyway, I’m glad it’s working for you. You probably should continue to search for a more official version of the driver at some point.

Rob

#3

It’s really hard for me to understand that here in 2017, that you can find out of date drivers that don’t support OpenGL 2.1. That was the standard back in 2006. Yet I’ve seen Windows 10 not support it on certain Intel cards.

Anyway, I’m glad it’s working for you. You probably should continue to search for a more official version of the driver at some point.

Rob