# Black screen after downloading Slicer

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/black-screen-after-downloading-slicer/1574>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/black-screen-after-downloading-slicer/1574 "2017-12-01T16:20:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/black-screen-after-downloading-slicer/1574/13 "2018-12-16T13:59:46Z")

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This is a generation 2 Intel Core chipset. Current is generation 9. Integrated graphics capabilities of this chipset are insufficient to run Slicer-4.9 or later.

We had to drop support for very old/limited systems to allow using more recent graphics programming interfaces to get hugely improved performance on current hardware.

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