Hello!
I’ve been using some Google-Fu skills and have tried both the official launcher and the PolyMC launcher from the AUR to no avail. It seems that the “old solution” for pre-OpenGL 4.3 graphics devices was to launch with a forced MESA GL version of 4.3. This does not work anymore, with the minecraft launcher and PolyMC launcher both coming up with a blank screen (cannot link but DuckDuckGoing PlanetMinecraft glfw error 65543 should bring you to the post with solutions)
So with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.3 minecraft-launcher
out of the question, what are other options?
So far I have:
- Suggested falling back to 1.12.5 which seems to work A-OK with the older chipsets.
- Suggested a) installing the newest mesa-git (22.2.0-devel) from AUR then b) launching with
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink
. This is less than ideal on Core 2 Duo systems such a T7300 as it is then using an llvmpipe vulkan implentation. However, combined with Optifine (which has OpenGL 3.3 support) it seems that Minecraft will indeed launch.
That being said, it is of course suboptimal.
The problem here is the friend I am helping (and trying to duplicate on my own older machines) is in Poland with a couple of Ukrainian kiddos. “Just buy a new laptop” is not an acceptable answer: therefore I am trying to do with Linux users do best… find workarounds.
Using an older version (1.12.5) with the OpenGL drivers or running the latest (1.18.2 as of today) with the Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan-On-LLVMpipe is not… highly performant but it gets the job done.
What are the chances of OpenGL 3.3 support for Optifine or even OpenGL 4.3 support for the crocus driver on 965GM, Intel HD and Intel HD 2000 chipsets?