When starting any viewer for Second Life viewer says; "Error Can't make GL context" and crashes

[Custurd Spingflower]

When I start up my Dolphin Viewer for Second Life it says;
"Error
Can't make GL context"
Then it offically crashes. The Viewer window never even opens.

I've tried my Dolphine Viewer, SL2 Viewer, and Ascent Viewer; they all do the same thing. Is something suddenly wrong with my computer? :(

[Peewee Musytari]

What are your computer specs? Specifically Mac or Windows and what is your graphics card?

Check that your graphics card has the latest drivers installed.

[Nika Talaj]

SL uses OpenGL, and often this indicates that OpenGL cannot (for some reason) draw the SL screen at the resolution your screen currently is in.  You could try running SL in a window, as opposed to fullscreen (in a 1.x based viewer, a checkbox for this is the first choice on the Edit/Preferences/General page). 

If that doesn't work, then try uninstalling and reinstalling SL.  Often that works, for reasons that are not completely clear.

If that doesn't work, then check your video card driver.  Remember, on Windows, UNINSTALL the previous driver before installing any new one!