If you cannot run current 0.13 with native hardware support, you can try (on Windows) if the ANGLE version works for you, or run a software-only solution (MESA), or consider a <€35 system upgrade. Old hardware can always use software versions of similar age. Atom netbooks (mine included) are unlucky although produced as late as 2010. There was OpenG元+ capable hardware produced in 2008 or even earlier (This is about 2 computer generations ago, for many users!), while e.g.

personal resources to deal with all outdated hardware and driver versions out there produced before 2010. Therefore a check at program start either tells you immediately that it will not run ('No OpenGL2'), or that you may be lucky enough to run in a degraded mode. There are OpenGL2.1 systems which work with our shader programs and only show minimal problems, while others crash. While Qt5 requires OpenGL2.1 as minimum and while our shader code only uses GLSL1.10 syntax, experience has shown that problems appear on at least many systems where driver support is less than OpenG元/GLSL1.30.

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