I am currently suffering from rendering animated work from Houdini. I constantly receive “OpenGL Fatal Error” message when I click mantra rendering. I am currently using XPS17 L702x laptop with 1GB graphics card.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem and will a new laptop to solve this?

Or can I transfer my animation into a different software (ie : cinema 4d/ Maya) so that I could still render an animation without having upgrading my laptop into 3GB graphics card?

That message appears when your environment variable HOUDINI_OGL_MAX_GL_VERSION is set/detected too low. Have you messed around in your Houdini.env file?

For instance I can force that error to appear on my machine by simply placing 3.2 as my max GL version inside my Houdini.env file.

HOUDINI_OGL_MAX_GL_VERSION = 3.2

Maybe you had an older graphics card in your system and you recently installed a new one?

Currently H14.474 requires a minimum of OpenGL 4.0 support to run, which your nVidia card does support.

Check out the contents of your Houdini.env file typically located here on Windows.

C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Documents\houdini14.0