OpenGL Creating Window

[killermud]

Hi,

I have been having a problem recently running my OpenGL project, whenever I ran my project my entire OS would freeze and I would be forced to restart my computer. I found that the source of the problem was the glutCreateWindow(); function, so I tried exchanging the OpenGL utility to GLFW, but that gave the same problem, so I believe it must be a problem with my hardware/drivers. I even tried making a sample application to make sure my code was not the issue.

#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <gl/glut.h>
#include <time.h>
 
void display()
{
	glutSwapBuffers();
}
 
void reshape(int w, int h)
{
	glViewport(0,0,w,h);
}
 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
#ifdef RELEASE
 
	FreeConsole();
 
#endif
 
	int x = 1000;
	int y = 600;
 
	glutInit(&argc, argv);
	glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_DEPTH);
	glutInitWindowSize(x,y);
	glutInitWindowPosition(50, 100);
	glutCreateWindow("Test");
	glutDisplayFunc(display);
	glutReshapeFunc(reshape);
 
	std::cout << "OpenGL Version: " << glGetString(GL_VERSION) << std::endl;
	std::cout << std::endl;
	std::cout << "#######################" << std::endl;
	std::cout << std::endl;
 
	glutMainLoop();
 
	return 0;
}

As I said the program would cause my OS to hang at 'glutCreateWindow("Test");'

I can only think it would be a driver problem, as I recently updated my driver and that was when the problems started occurring. My spec is:

Intel i5 750
4GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 465 GTX
Windows 7 64-bit

Does anyone know the source of the problem?

[carsten neumann]

Hmm, strange. I agree it sounds like a driver problem. You could try installing a different (possibly older) driver version; perform a "clean" install, if the driver has such an option (the idea is to remove all traces of the previous driver version). Have you tried running other OpenGL applications?