# Issue starting GPlates

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/issue-starting-gplates/710
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [15 July 2023 10:48 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/issue-starting-gplates/710 "2023-07-15T10:48:50Z")
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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [17 July 2023 11:28 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/issue-starting-gplates/710/2 "2023-07-17T11:28:56Z")

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Hi Saleh,

It’s basically because your system is using OpenGL 1.1 (instead of OpenGL 2 or above).

Have a look at [this post](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/failed-to-load-and-resolve-wgl-opengl-functions/626). There’s also [this post](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/error-while-launching-gplates-v2-3-0/540) - but it ends up at the same thing (not having/using OpenGL \>= 2.0).

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