Windows 8 和 SDL/GLEW

Question

I installed Windows 8 CP, and realized my program crashes on runtime:

Unhandled exception at 0x771fe754 in MyProgram.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation.

I get this error when calling the following line of code:

glGenBuffers(NUM_VBO, VBOs_);

I am using the latest versions of both GLEW and SDL

The program runs fine in Windows 7, so I have no idea whats going on here...

Edit:

Note: glGetError() shows up no errors before the call to glGenBuffers() .

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    GLEW Extension Info
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GLEW version 1.7.0
Reporting capabilities of pixelformat 2
Running on a GDI Generic from Microsoft Corporation
OpenGL version 1.1.0 is supported

GL_VERSION_1_1:                                                OK 

// everything else is "missing"

Answer 1

I managed to solve my problem - glew works fine but the intel drivers off windows update do not support OpenGL past v1. You Can check what's supported using the utility that comes with glew.

After installing a better driver my issues were resolved. Note that doing this is not straight forward as they will not install normally. You have modify the inf file and re-sign the driver first. Which is beyond the scope of this question