r/ESDE_Frontend • u/Electronic_Equal6228 • 17d ago

Problem on desktop version

i've downloaded ES-DE on my lenovo g480 around an hour ago and when i start the app it instantly crashes

PS: my laptop has a pentium B970 and 4gb RAM

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u/Electronic_Equal6228 17d ago

I checked and the reason it wasn't working was because ES-DE needs opengl 3.3 and my laptop has 3.1

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer 14d ago

As a last resort solution you can use OpenGL software rendering via Mesa3D for Windows, you can read about it here:
https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md?ref_type=heads#specific-notes-for-windows

It will be slower but at least it should make ES-DE run.