This occurs with a standard cube (about 2-5 fps). If I load in a character model it gets even worse( below 1 fps)

Let's see what graphics card blender is using on your computer.
In the Help tab click on Save System Info and then share the file generated here. (Maybe that gives some clue of what's going on).
Another thing that would help investigate would be by opening blender from the Command Prompt adding the arguments --debug-gpu. The prompt will display some information that may be useful.

Alright, I've attached the file and I will look at the information displayed from the debugging, thank you.

Looks like you're running on mesa? did you by any chance drop a opengl32.dll in your blender folder?

I don't believe so, I've been having this problem since I first download blender yesterday, I'll check if I can find that file.

Woah, I found the file you were talking about and removed it. Everything seems to be running fine now. I have no idea how that file was in there if it was not supposed to be.

Thanks for all of your help!

waooo thanks so much this information worked for me too..... my blender is now working fine and faster

In T54576#493093, @Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) wrote:

Looks like you're running on mesa? did you by any chance drop a opengl32.dll in your blender folder?

That's what I did, although I didn't have much of a choice. Blender won't run without it. I copied it from my JKA game, if that helps.

If you drop in an software opengl implementation, things are gonna be slow, If blender doesn't run without it you either have an old video card, or have driver issues.

I've got this issue now, dropped the opengl file in the folder only because I was getting an error before where it wouldn't open Blender and apparently that was the fix. I just built a computer with 32gb of RAM, and checking task manager it's not touching more than 2% of that so I'm not sure how to fix. Would I need to update the drivers and if so which drivers would they be? I've tried un- and reinstalling but no success

In T54576#493093, @Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) wrote:

Looks like you're running on mesa? did you by any chance drop a opengl32.dll in your blender folder?

hey Ray, I have the same issue as Drake and I'm wondering if you could help me out please man! Ive saved the system info and ill attach it here

I would be so grateful if u could help

on adding too many things my blender starts lagging and on deleting the opengl32.dll the software crash and tell to reinstall and the problem reoccur and also it doesn't happen in the other projects only that particular project

In T54576#545572, @Stephen Fleece (RepJunkieJr) wrote:

In T54576#493093, @Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) wrote:

Looks like you're running on mesa? did you by any chance drop a opengl32.dll in your blender folder?

That's what I did, although I didn't have much of a choice. Blender won't run without it. I copied it from my JKA game, if that helps.

Same here but I copied it from the Blender 2.83 folder and is running fine now (Tested with large city sceane)

People keep pinging this thread so i'll give another rundown on what is happening here.

if blender only runs by dropping a file named opengl32.dll next to the blender executable there's two options

1. You have a really old computer, with a GPU not capable of running blender, by dropping in this software opengl dll you will be able to run blender, but your computer is already old and offloading the work the GPU normally does to the CPU will just make it unbearably slow. You are most likely better off running a version of blender that still supports your aging hardware (ie blender 2.7x/2.6x)

2. You have a modern computer, with a GPU capable of running blender but have driver issues, by dropping in the software opengl dll, you are too offloading the work the GPU would normally do to the CPU and things would still be very slow, the advise here is to resolve any driver issues you may have and removing the software opengl implementation from the blender folder, so you can urn on your actual GPU the way blender was designed to be used.

I have the same problem, but I do not have an opengl32.dll file. Can someone please help me out?

In T54576#1028512, @Hawk (HawkMoth65) wrote:

I have the same problem, but I do not have an opengl32.dll file. Can someone please help me out?

system-info.txt7 KBDownload

Thanks for the info, but if you do not have an opengl32.dll file, then it is not the same problem, so it must be reported separately.

My blender 2.90.1 is slow too, I don't have opengl32.dll but I have opnenAL.dll

opengl32.dll file just remove it, it will be fixed, and blender should correct this issue because it make it worse this beautiful software.

And thanks dude for sharing this useful tips

Hi how to fix this - whenever i want to duplicate something, assign material or else, it will not responding and must wait a few minutes then it will duplicate the object. It keep no responding and also while i want to save the project it also not responding

hello. last night I was animating a 2d scene on my computer , and blender was running completely smoothly. but since today ever time i try to play my animation a FPS is way lower then what i should be, even when all tab were closed, the system wasn't overheating, and my computer was at it's highest performance. but instead of running in 24 fps, it would drop to 12 and sometimes even 8 fps. I haven't changed any settings but this is still happening and it's extremely frustrating