Merge pull request #67546 from clayjohn/DS-msg

Update the DisplayServer video driver error message to be more accurate and friendly

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/platform/windows/display_server_windows.cpp b/platform/windows/display_server_windows.cpp
index bc767a47e5..43d7208501 100644
--- a/platform/windows/display_server_windows.cpp
+++ b/platform/windows/display_server_windows.cpp
@@ -3922,9 +3922,21 @@ Vector<String> DisplayServerWindows::get_rendering_drivers_func() {
 DisplayServer *DisplayServerWindows::create_func(const String &p_rendering_driver, WindowMode p_mode, VSyncMode p_vsync_mode, uint32_t p_flags, const Vector2i &p_resolution, Error &r_error) {
 	DisplayServer *ds = memnew(DisplayServerWindows(p_rendering_driver, p_mode, p_vsync_mode, p_flags, p_resolution, r_error));
 	if (r_error != OK) {
-		OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support any of the supported Vulkan or OpenGL versions.\n"
-								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU upgrade it.",
-				"Unable to initialize Video driver");
+		if (p_rendering_driver == "vulkan") {
+			String executable_name = OS::get_singleton()->get_executable_path().get_file();
+			OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support the selected Vulkan version.\n"
+									   "Please try updating your GPU driver or try using the OpenGL 3 driver.\n"
+									   "You can enable the OpenGL 3 driver by starting the engine from the\n"
+									   "command line with the command:\n'./" +
+							executable_name + " --rendering-driver opengl3'.\n "
+											  "If you have updated your graphics drivers recently, try rebooting.",
+					"Unable to initialize Video driver");
+		} else {
+			OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support the selected OpenGL version.\n"
+									   "Please try updating your GPU driver.\n"
+									   "If you have updated your graphics drivers recently, try rebooting.",
+					"Unable to initialize Video driver");
+		}
 	}
 	return ds;
 }