After Effects Warning: OpenGL

[Steve Roberts]

Can you disable OpenGL in the AE Prefs? Most users do that.

[Brian Lynn]

Thanks for the advice guys! I had/have never really looked into what OpenGL really does for AE… just assumded it helped to speed previews or something.

I will disable it since it seems to be kinda useless unless I know specifically what I want!

Thanks again, CC rocks =)

[Brian Lynn]

So, under Preferences>Preview tag I see OpenGL as an option, but its already turned off…

Also changed the Accelerate Effects to Adaptive Resolution (it was set to OpenGL).

Shut down and restart AfterEffects and I still get the error message… I don’t think its doing anything bad with everything turned off but I would still love to know what is causing the error, and how I can get rid of having to say “ok” everytime I start AE. Open a huge project, and walk away for a minute while it opens, come back and AE is stuck in its splash screen waiting for me to say “ok”. Click “ok” and go back and get more to drink… lol!!

Thanks again for the response guys!

(I don’t have this issue on my desktop at home, but can’t always take that to remote locations to do work on site)

Brian

[Sumit Ahuja]

I got the new graphic card Nvidia Gforce 8600 GT. Installed it in my PC and now evertime I start my AfterEffects I get this warning-

AfterEffects Warning: A problem occured when processing OpenGL commands.

Everything seems to work fine, but I am curious as to what caused this, or how I might go about fixing it.

I am running Windows XP, Nvidia Gforce 8600 GT, Intel P4 2.6 GZ, some other stuff…

Oh and CS3 everything…

When i go to preferences in after effects to disable the openGL option, i can do that too because i can see see that option over there but it does not let me click on it. when i close after effects i get another error “the instruction at “0x00f71940″referenced memory at “0x00000000” the memory could not be “read”.”

So please help me out.

Thanks for any help you can give!

Sumit

[Benjamin Taylor]

how did you turn off the OpenGL option? did you turn it off in side after effects, I get the same OpenGL message but AFTER EFFECTS crashes while it is initializing to open.
any feed back is appreciated.

system setup

vista 64bit
16G RAM
2.4 QUAD CORE
2X NVIDA GRAPHICS CARDS (8600) 512MB SLI SETTUP

[Gunnar Soroos]

I removed the OpenGL plug in from the Plug Ins folder, per this:https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402244

1. Quit After Effects.

2. Mac OS: Drag the AE_OpenGL.plugin file from the Applications/Adobe After Effects CS3/Plug-ins/Extensions folder to the desktop.
Windows: Drag the AE_OpenGL.AEX file from the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files\Plug-ins\Extensions folder to the desktop.

3. Restart After Effects.

Worked for me.

[Marvin Cacao]

Hello im new here. Im also using AE CS3 and the same problem also happened to me.I don’t know if you already resolved yours but I will still post this for the sake of those whose experiencing the same problem.

AE will will always have that kind of error if…

1.Your GPU driver is not updated/supports opengl, and 2
2…..the most obvious one, when your resolution is set to 16 bit
(believe me, it took me a whole week to figure out this one,
which really s**ks.)

The second one was the problem for me so I already resolved that.

Thats all.I hope this helps.

[Sara Liftoffs]

Same here i have after effects cs4 and it crashes somtimes cuz it dose that!!!! uggg its so annoying i love after effects im frikin 13 years old working this program!!!! no joke ive been using it for a year now i have a laptop and a desktop coputer it dosnt do that on my laptop but my computer dose i love ae but seriusly adobe has got to fix the glitches!!!!