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October 23, 2020
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Pattern Preview mode will work, but the preview is only visible in OpenGL enabled document windows.

  • October 23, 2020
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I keep getting this error when I try to preview pattern in the latest version of Photoshop. How do I enable OpenGL?

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Participant
December 4, 2023

I got it to work... went to help... updates on the bottom and there was one which sai bug fixes.. Working now !!

Participant
February 3, 2021

Hopefully this works for you - my wife had the same error you're getting (on Windows 10) and making the following change in the NVIDIA Control Panel - not Photoshop Preferences - successfully resolved it. Previews were working fine before today, so we suspect that perhaps the NVIDIA driver automatically updated and reset the settings.

 

I'm on macOS but don't have Photoshop nor an NVIDIA gpu so I cannot confirm it works for Mac, but hopefully the below solution is transferrable to the appropriate System Preferences panel or such.

 

  1. Open Control Panel > NVIDIA Control Panel
  2. Select 3D Settings > Manage 3D Settings
  3. You can specify the settings for all programs or a single program. In this case, I've chosen photoshop.exe
  4. Switch the setting Enable Overlay to On
  5. Apply the changes and restart Photoshop.
  6. The preview pattern error should no longer appear and the previews should be visible.

 

Participant
April 26, 2021

I had this error and you pointed me in the right direction. All fixed and whoooops of joy!

 

Participant
October 28, 2020

I have the same, pls await to update util everything is stabil...

 

how do we deal with this bug ??