BL 4.0 on old PC?

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i got an old PC no GPU card
and can still run BL 3.6.6
and looks like there are no problems up to now!

but cannot run the BL 4.0

i read somewhere you could sheat and modify some files on MS to get Win 11 to run but not certain if it is worth trying.

anyone else had that problem and solution may be

thanks
happy bl

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You need OpenGL 4.3 support GPU

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ok but i don’t have a GPU only an ordinary video card !

and don’t use GPU only CPU

thanks
happy bl

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You will need GPU - dedicated or intergrated which supports Open GL 4.3 with Blender 4.0 and onwards. If you don’t have one - stick with previous version. Simple as that.

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Does not run on my Intel HD 4600 integrated Graphics although OpenGL is higher than 4.3. so i guess you need a discrete GPU.

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AMD RX 580 - OpenCL 4.5 - Blender 4.01 won’t start

7

Your card is not supported.

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My card 8 Vram OpenGL 4.5

Hardware Requirements

Minimum

  • 64-bit quad core CPU with SSE4.2 support
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 1920×1080 Full HD display
  • Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
  • 2 GB VRAM Graphics Card that supports OpenGL 4.3
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are you saying that for BL .40 i must have a GPU of some sort ?

thanks
happy bl

10

Read this, see if it applies to your situation:

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You don’t need a dedicated GPU. You can still use the integrated GPU from your CPU if the minimal requirements are fulfilled

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i want to get a new PC and be able to run Win11 which i cannot do right now
on this old machine i have

so i would have to get a new PC with some GPU for BL to run BL 4.0 ?

thanks
happy bl

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Troubleshooting Docs
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/troubleshooting/gpu/index.html

For Intels Igpu (integrated on the CPU);
minimum requirement of intel iGPU is already bumped to Broadwell architecture

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/38530/products-formerly-broadwell.html#@Desktop

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/4.0

Due to driver issues, support for Intel HD4000 series GPUs has been dropped.

The minimum required OpenGL version has been increased to 4.3 for Linux and Windows.

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Every PC has a GPU. Otherwise your screen would be black :wink:
If you are asking if you need a dedicated GPU (like an RTX 4090 for example) then the answer is no. You can run Blender on an integrated GPU just fine, if it meets the requirements (i’m doing that myself at home with an i5 8400). But you have to keep in mind that rendering speeds will be horrible!

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i know but cost of a medium GPU NVIDIA is around $1000.00

so not certain next PC will be with a GPU like that

in any case i don’t do commercial projects .

so not really worried about time to render
i know it is way faster with a good GPU

but i can live with using only CPU too

thanks for feedback
happy bl

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