Houdini on Intel GPU : any hope?

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Well I know Hou isn't compatible with Intel GPU's but is there any setting I could change to make it work??

When I start Hou I get this console message :
Could not create OpenCL device of type (HOUDINI_OCL_DEVICETYPE): GPU on platform vendor (HOUDINI_OCL_VENDOR): Intel(R) Corporation.
Falling back to built-in CPU OpenCL driver (see HOUDINI_USE_HFS_OCL)
Could not create OpenCL device of type (HOUDINI_OCL_DEVICETYPE): GPU on platform vendor (HOUDINI_OCL_VENDOR): Intel(R) Corporation.
Falling back to built-in CPU OpenCL driver (see HOUDINI_USE_HFS_OCL)

Then the GUI is all wrecked...
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You can ignore those errors. It works fine on an intel GPU. You can't run openCL on the GPU, but you wouldn't want to anyway as it's slower than the CPU. Make sure the driver is one from Intel and not the automatically installed one from Microsoft.
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Well thanks but I can't ignore them when the GUI is all messed up.
I tried adding this in the Houdini.env file, but it still doesn't work:
HOUDINI_OCL_DEVICETYPE=CPU
HOUDINI_OCL_VENDOR=Intel(R) Corporation
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Well thanks but I can't ignore them when the GUI is all messed up.
I tried adding this in the Houdini.env file, but it still doesn't work:
HOUDINI_OCL_DEVICETYPE=CPU
HOUDINI_OCL_VENDOR=Intel(R) Corporation

The gui being messed up is unrelated to those messages. I get those messages and Houdini works fine for me. Install the current Intel graphics driver, and it should work properly. The auto-installed microsoft driver (version 26.something) is no good.
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Well you were right. I clean reinstalled the v30 driver and now all is fine.
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