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Eric Filkins
Eric Filkins

Reputation: 329

WebGl will not work in Chrome

Whenever I try and go to a site that utilizes WebGl, it never loads. I'm using a mid '09 MacBook Pro (10.7.5), and running Chrome 33.0.1750.117. Is there a setting that I need to turn on in Chrome somewhere to get everything to work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5179

Answers (1)

user128511
user128511

Reputation:

Several bugs in Mac OpenGL drivers have been discovered by the WebGL team at Google. Apple fixes the bugs but the fixes are generally only available in the latest version of the OS AFAIK :(

If the Chrome team decides the bugs are a security issue or if they affect WebGL compatibility in too many cases they have to blacklist that GPU on versions of the OS that still have the bug. I'm not saying upgrading to 10.9 is guaranteed to fix the issue.

For example: WebGL is buggy with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, 9400, and 9400M on MacOSX earlier than 10.8 from http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/gpu/config/software_rendering_list_json.cc

You can work around this by launching chrome with --ignore-gpu-blacklist as in open a terminal and with chrome not already running and type 

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --ignore-gpu-blacklist

Or by enabling Override software rendering list in about:flags. Of course they are blacklisted for a reason ;)

Upvotes: 6

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