I couldn’t find a post with this problem so I will post it here.
I’m getting a strange look when I want to change to Rendered. It simply won’t render and just shows a bunch of icons.
Did you ever find out what was the problem? I have this same strange issue. It happens on fresh uninstall/reinstall of blender 2.70a, with a brand new default blend opened.
I had it working before with same version, and not sure what went wrong.
This is the error shown in the console:
Shader compile error:
Fragment shader failed to compile with the following errors:
ERROR: 0:5: ‘’ : Declaration must include a precision qualifier or the default precision must have been previously declared.
I also had this problem and found it occurred when I loaded Blender 2.70a. Returned to 2.70 and problem disappeared. Actually I have both versions loaded and can open either one. Only 2.70a has this problem.
Is this a bug, perhaps?
My graphics card is:
ati mobility radeon hd 4650 (latest drivers)