Blender won't start, says video card drivers are outdated. RTX 3060 12 GB, the card was updated to the latest version, Blender 5.0, 5.1, and 4.5.

John

That is a common error most often the OpenGL version has become corrupt in your system reinstalling the graphic drivers and doing a clean install make sure there is a check mark in the Clean Installation option see screen shots below usually will resolve this if it repeats reinstalling Blender would be my next trouble shooting step hope this helps 

Lobo3433 

Lobo3433, yes, the problem was partly, and the problem was fixed by cleaning the card from over heating and other things. It now works fine, and thanks for your info

goofygrape posted at 9:46 PM Sun, 8 February 2026 - #4503825

Lobo3433, yes, the problem was partly, and the problem was fixed by cleaning the card from over heating and other things. It now works fine, and thanks for your info

I am glad your issue is resolved I experienced the myself a couple of times in the past while using Blender so was familiar with the most common solution I am gla dyou are back up and running