Failed to load and resolve WGL/OpenGL functions

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Hi, my name is Henry, I new here, this is what happened to me today and I don’t know what to do.

So recently I decided to install GPlantes on my laptop, but for some reason when I try to open it, it appears this message.
Failed to load and resolve WGL/OpenGL functions

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Hi Henry,

Have a look at this post (eg, trying updating your graphics drivers, since you’re on Windows).

In addition to that post, another issue that could cause this is your system not having support for OpenGL version 2 or above. For example, if you’re using a remote desktop (or maybe using a Virtual Machine where the graphics hardware is not being used for OpenGL). In this case it will fallback to OpenGL 1.1 and can produce the error message you have (note that this only happens on GPlates 2.3 but not 2.2, due to upgrading from Qt4 to Qt5). So maybe try updating graphics drivers and then use GPlates natively on your laptop (ie, not through a remote desktop or VM).