INFO: OpenCL/OpenGL Interop when another GPU is present.

[LLess]

Hi guys,

After a lot of search I have been able to get the OpenCL/OpenGL Interop working with the HD4000 WITHOUT deactivating my NVidia card.

The pain is caused by the fact that Microsoft doesn't want to change the way they load OpenGL ICDs. So right now they decide somehow with no control from the ICD providers.

So in my case I was ending up with NVidia ICD loaded and no matter what I was doing the OpenGL/OpenCL interop would fail because the contexts were not on the same device.

I have found in some forum that the only way is to actually load the ICD you want BEFORE the OpenGL32.dll.

The only way I have found so far is to put any DLL using OpenGL (OpenGL itself, Glut,GLEW etc..)  as delayed loaded.

Then in my App InitInstance I load the Intel ICD with LoadLibrary("ig7icd32.dll") .

OpenGL32.DLL when loading detects that the ICD is already loaded and uses the one loaded instead of the one it would be default.

And now I can work on my OpenCL with OpenGL app without having to disable the NVidia Card.

If you have encountered the same issue, then this might be a solution for you.

Laurent

[Raghupathi_M_Intel]

Laurent,

Thanks for the excellent info. Hope this helps others facing the same issue.

Raghu

[jeffwrite]

To the forum:

     In regards to Laurent, the Nvidia SDK had only 3D and the Opengl software did not seem to be developed as of yet.  I had hoped that Nvidia would developed the SDK software that could handle both 3D and OpenGL.  Then I researched on WIKI that OpenGL might have PATENT Issues that might hurt developers down the road, so I do not know if there is a big problem with that.

[MSimm2]

ReactOS has an opengl32.dll that supports multiple vendor icd's. You can compile it separately and the use it instead. But you would need to add each vendors icd into the registry yourself.

[MSimm2]

Sorry double post