initialization failure ddraw.dll

OpenGL
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I got initialization failure ddraw.dll when I call SetPixelFormat().

Any advice will be appreciated.

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Any more information you can provide would be useful. Do any OpenGL apps run on your system? Which card/drivers are you using? What version of the OS?

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The ddraw.dll contains DirectDraw, which is part of DirectX. Apparently, it is also called by Windows for functions like SetPixelFormat even when you’re not using DirectX specifically. (I got a similar error message when I tried to initialize OpenGL after I removed ddraw.ddl.)

Check whether ddraw.dll is present in your system32 directory or try installing (the latest version of) DirectX.

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