# Where are OpenGL drivers for Intel 945GM

**URL:** <https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438>\
**Category:** OpenGL: User Software\
**Created:** [June 9, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438 "2007-06-09T11:48:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ekbart\_van\_der\_klunk](https://community.khronos.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/48db29/32.png) [@ekbart\_van\_der\_klunk](https://community.khronos.org/u/ekbart_van_der_klunk)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438/1 "2007-06-09T11:48:00Z")

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I have a vista laptop with the ever popular Intel 945GM graphics chip. Intel says their drivers support OpenGL and I downloaded from [Intel.com](http://Intel.com) their latest drivers, but nowhere did I find the OpenGL.DLL module that many demos seem to require. And what level of OpenGL does one get? it seems almost a conspiracy to keep OpenGL from gaining a foothold to make the info so obscure. I know that nVidia has good OpenGL drivers but I have the most common cheap chip and it should be able to do something. I was tryingto run the chess demo I found on the net.

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**Author:** ![ZbuffeR](https://community.khronos.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/ce7236/32.png) [@ZbuffeR](https://community.khronos.org/u/ZbuffeR)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438/2 "2007-06-09T14:29:00Z")

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You need to install these intel drivers.  
[http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel945gm/sb/CS-021517.htm](http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel945gm/sb/CS-021517.htm)

Every windows system has a basic opengl32.dll, and then if accelerated drivers are installed, they add modern opengl features (the new .dll is named differently by each video card vendor)  
Some background on this :  
[http://www.opengl.org/wiki/index.php/Getting\_started#Windows](http://www.opengl.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_started#Windows)

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.khronos.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/ba89cb49313a0e869198c8be354afde8bcae027e.png) [@system](https://community.khronos.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438/3 "2007-06-09T17:49:00Z")

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Is it really opengl.dll that your programs need?  
Wow! that is ancient!  
Without going into details, those programs need to be updated to use opengl32.dll

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**Author:** ![sqrt\_1](https://community.khronos.org/user_avatar/community.khronos.org/sqrt_1/32/61_2.png) [@sqrt\_1](https://community.khronos.org/u/sqrt_1)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.khronos.org/t/where-are-opengl-drivers-for-intel-945gm/9438/4 "2007-06-11T19:33:00Z")

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V-man is correct. That chess demo must be really old if it wants plain “OpenGL.dll” instead of “OpenGL32.dll”.

Only some of the really old SGI type demos did this.  
Try a newer demo from [http://nehe.gamedev.net/](http://nehe.gamedev.net/) and see if they work.