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That looks to me like a graphics card/driver issue, have you updated them fully since you upgraded? FWIW, I've been able to play the game with no problems on my recently bought Win10 laptop that's a refurb and ran Win7 before.
It's also possible it's a bug that's been fixed more recently, 0.4.5 is nearly a year old and we're getting ready for 0.4.6 at the moment, can you try the most recent Test Version to see if you get any better results? Work has been done on graphics rendering in the current cycle that might have fixed it already.
Mat Bowles
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freeorion.log wrote:2016-07-08 16:17:03,320 DEBUG Client : OpenAL initialized. Version 1.1Renderer SoftwareVendor Creative Labs Inc.
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2016-07-08 16:17:05,706 ERROR Client : OpenGL Version is less than 2.0 (official required) or 1.5 (usually works). FreeOrion may crash when trying to start a game.
Definitely check for driver update. Do you know your graphics card chipset?
The most recent version I have tried is FreeOrion_2016-06-28.438ed78_Test_Win32_Setup. But everything past v4.4 has consistently crashed on game launch.
Belarc reports my graphics as "Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0) [Display adapter] (2x)". Every driver update program I run says that all drivers are up to date. When I look on the Intel site it appears that they have not released a new driver for this chipset in a long time. I know the computer is old ... it's just frustrating that the same hardware ran the game under XP but won't under Win10.
