Question

To preface this question, I am new to openGL and Visual Studio, so I may be missing something rather obvious. I am following an openGL tutorial that’s supposed to set up a basic window that displays information about the version of openGL you are using.

Tutorial |
Setup

For reference, I am running VS2010 on 64-bit Windows 7 on an NVidia GTX670m. When I specify that the boilerplate program run in openGL v3.x. It runs just fine. When I specify that it run in v4.x. It crashes with the following output (question to continue after):

'Engine.exe': Loaded 'D:\Engine\Engine\Release\Engine.exe', Symbols loaded.
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\freeglut.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lpk.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\usp10.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\opengl32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\glu32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ddraw.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dciman32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\setupapi.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cfgmgr32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleaut32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll', Symbols loaded.
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\devobj.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dwmapi.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winmm.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msctf.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nvinit.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uxtheme.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Spigot\Search Settings\wth159.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psapi.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ig7icd32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Engine.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll', Symbols loaded (source information stripped).
'Engine.exe': Unloaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll'
The program '[7332] Engine.exe: Native' has exited with code 1 (0x1).

In googling this problem, I saw some people recommend pulling symbols from the MS server in the debug menu and turning off the option to treat warnings as errors. I tried both but the program still crashed. Even if it didn’t, I feel like I should still investigate the cause.

Assumption: NVidia lists the GTX 670 as supporting openGL 4.x. It does not explicitly say the 670m is supported, but I am assuming that if the regular 670 is – that mobile version is.

Question: If the program works fine with openGL v3.x and my hardware should support openGL v4.x, what is causing my program to crash?

Answer 1

Your program didn’t crash. Conditions in some of the logic may not have been met, causing a different branch to run, but it did run to completion.

None of the output you posted has any relation to your “problem” except the very last line, which suggests that the code entered a branch ending in ExitProcess(1) or return EXIT_FAILURE.