Why can I not use Blender without OpenGL3.3?

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Trying to get Blender 2.8 to run on my old laptop

I have an old Thinkpad which has an Intel HD Graphics 3000 video card built in. Unfortunately, the latest Windows video card drivers only support OpenGL 3.1.0. I would like to try to run Blender 2.8 via Windows 10 on this laptop, even if it runs slowly. My understanding is that I should be able to run Blender 2.8 with an old OpenGL version via the command line like this: blender.exe -d --debug-gpu I downloaded blender-2.80-7e9389b83d8-win64 here, and when I try running Blender with the abov…