Deploying Qt5 on Windows without Hardware Acceleration

Question

Qt5 can use the OpenGL driver or the DirectX Driver by using ANGLE. As we cannot depend on an installed OpenGL driver, we need to use the ANGLE backend. Unfortunately, this does

Answer 1

QT 5 has huge compatibility issue with opengl on some hardware configurations Combination of Intel HD3000 driver and Nvidia/ATI card won't work on Windows 10. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42240

Intel drops support for this card but their drivers has bug that leads to crash.

You cannot rely on hardware opengl if you want to support customers with HD3000.