i have a problem with the boxee for 32bit windows 7

**king.incar** · June 24th, 2009, 09:10 PM

i have it installed on my laptop and i keep getting an error when i try to start it i keep getting an error this keeps pop-ing up... any one have any ideas on how i can get boxee to start?

**chowmein** · June 24th, 2009, 10:59 PM

Which card do you have? Try searching for an updated driver. Even the WDDM driver that microsoft provides, works for some cards. Worked for me for my ATI X1300

**bmoura** · June 25th, 2009, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by cooldfuzion

Get official drivers to your grafic card in the nvidia or amd site.

Right. Here the Windows 7 Nvidia drivers from their web site fix the issue for both Win 7 32 Bit and Win 7 64 bit versions.

**king.incar** · June 25th, 2009, 11:26 AM

i have intergrated graphics from intel i cant find the info right now but i checked if i had the most updated drivers and i did but still nothing... any other suggestions?

i have Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family

**Sandman** · June 25th, 2009, 11:51 AM

Download the Vista drivers from Intel and then run the installer in compatibility mode.
http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=55091&postcount=17

**geekzak** · June 25th, 2009, 01:59 PM

You guys are correct. To get Boxee to work on your Windows 7 pc...you must install the Vista graphics driver. The "pre-release" graphics that came with Windows 7 don't support the correct version of openGL.

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**obuengineer** · June 26th, 2009, 08:45 AM

I was having the same opengl issues mentioned above with my intel gma integrated graphics. Downloading the vista driver does indeed fix the problem, but whenever I restart my machine it reverts to the old driver. Any suggestions on how to stop this from happening?

**obuengineer** · June 30th, 2009, 07:09 AM

I discovered that the default Windows 7 behavior is to automatically download and install all updates from Windows Update. When you install the Intel graphics driver, Windows sees it as an older version and downloads the more recent Microsoft driver. The next time you restart, it automatically installs the driver and Boxee doesn't work. So if you have this problem, disable auto install of Microsoft updates and you will be in great shape.

**marcel** · June 30th, 2009, 08:17 AM

thanks for the update ..

**ericdkirk** · June 30th, 2009, 08:23 PM

I had the same problem with windows 7 and my crappy intel graphics. To solve my problem I did something you should never do, I went into the 'igdlh.inf' and changed line 26 to: 'DriverVer=06/18/2009,8.14.10.1504' I bumped the date and the version number, to be ahead of the one win7 was trying to install. It is not a recommended practice but until INTEL gets around to making some win7 drivers that is was I will be doing.