Windows 10 upgrade has destroyed my drivers

[WMarr]

New to the community so i am hoping someone can help...

DELL VOSTRO 1015 Laptop - Previously running Windows 7 with no issues, until I upgraded to Windows 10...

As an ametuer 3D Artist, I have been messing with DAZ3d for a while, which was all good on my old Operating System...

Since the upgrade to Windows 10 - The program will not run... I get a message saying that I need OpenGL 1.3 or higher and the my computer only has 1.1

According to the DELL website - All my drivers are up to date so now I am stuck! What can I do? I know the Graphics chip in the Vostro is capable of taking OpenGL 1.6 at most, but there appears to be no drivers from Dell for Windows 10.

As I have already had Windows 10 running for a week, I cannot even downgrade as it has already deleted the old windows files.

Can anyone Help?

[AP16]

Thats 2010 year hardware not supported by Intel for Windows 10, so no graphical drivers. To get OpenGl support (limited) you can try http://sourceforge.net/projects/gldirect/ GLDirect download | SourceForge.net (free, but outdated) or http://users.ininet.hu/geri/TitaniumGL/ TitaniumGL (newer, but tryware).

[WMarr]

Thanks for that, I will try both...

I have found that Dell are working on Drivers for Windows 10 for this old system... but none are available as yet. So there must be a fair few people with this type of old chipset still.

Not only that, but with so many qualifying for a free upgrade to Windows 10 - I suppose they have not been left with much choice.

Honestly though - Even if your solution works, I think I will be going back to Windows 7 until I get a better PC.... My honest view of Windows 10 is it looks great, and overall is very nice but it hogs memory like a (Excuse my language) B**ch in heat! Its not a good OS at all unless you have a really powerful PC... Jesus! Even older games that have a habit of running too fast that were developed for 98 tend to lag!!! That's never a good sign!

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Please bear in mind your Dell Vostro computer integrates an Intel(R) 4 series chipset and it does not have support for Windows 10: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-034343.htm Graphics Drivers — Supported Operating Systems

Allan.

[llbr]

This is how I got OpenGL 2.1 working on Dell Vostro 1015 running Windows 2012 R2 -

0) Disable Windows driver signature enforcement -

launch cmd as Admin enter -

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

reboot.

1) Download latest Intel 4500 driver for Windows 7 and unpack

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/81507 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/81507

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22166/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-Driver-Windows-7-64-Windows-Vista-64-zip-?product=81507 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22166/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-Driver-Windows-7-64-Windows-Vista-64-zip-?product=81507

2) Edit /DIRECTORY_WHERE_UNPACKED/Graphics/kit49684.inf -

Go to line line 60 nd change

[Manufacturer]

%Intel% = IntelGfx, NTamd64.5.1, NTamd64.6.0, NTamd64.6.2

to

[Manufacturer]

%Intel% = IntelGfx, NTamd64.5.1, NTamd64.6

3) Install the driver either using setup.exe or manually; reboot.

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Thanks for sharing this information. It has not been officially tested but this is good to know.

Allan.

[GPoly]

it worked for me ty