diff --git a/src/modules/graphics/opengl/OpenGL.cpp b/src/modules/graphics/opengl/OpenGL.cpp
index 12ffdacb3..10afe3c9b 100644
--- a/src/modules/graphics/opengl/OpenGL.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/graphics/opengl/OpenGL.cpp
@@ -46,9 +46,8 @@ void initializeContext()
 
 	contextInitialized = true;
 
-	textureUnits.clear();
-
 	// initialize multiple texture unit support for shaders, if available
+	textureUnits.clear();
 	if (Shader::isSupported())
 	{
 		GLint maxtextureunits;
@@ -78,6 +77,24 @@ void initializeContext()
 		glGetIntegerv(GL_TEXTURE_BINDING_2D, (GLint *) &textureUnits[0]);
 	}
 
+	// The functionality of the core and ARB VBOs are identical, so we can
+	// assign the pointers of the core functions to the names of the ARB
+	// functions, if the latter isn't supported but the former is.
+	if (GLEE_VERSION_1_5 && !GLEE_ARB_vertex_buffer_object)
+	{
+		glBindBufferARB = (GLEEPFNGLBINDBUFFERARBPROC) glBindBuffer;
+		glBufferDataARB = (GLEEPFNGLBUFFERDATAARBPROC) glBufferData;
+		glBufferSubDataARB = (GLEEPFNGLBUFFERSUBDATAARBPROC) glBufferSubData;
+		glDeleteBuffersARB = (GLEEPFNGLDELETEBUFFERSARBPROC) glDeleteBuffers;
+		glGenBuffersARB = (GLEEPFNGLGENBUFFERSARBPROC) glGenBuffers;
+		glGetBufferParameterivARB = (GLEEPFNGLGETBUFFERPARAMETERIVARBPROC) glGetBufferParameteriv;
+		glGetBufferPointervARB = (GLEEPFNGLGETBUFFERPOINTERVARBPROC) glGetBufferPointerv;
+		glGetBufferSubDataARB = (GLEEPFNGLGETBUFFERSUBDATAARBPROC) glGetBufferSubData;
+		glIsBufferARB = (GLEEPFNGLISBUFFERARBPROC) glIsBuffer;
+		glMapBufferARB = (GLEEPFNGLMAPBUFFERARBPROC) glMapBuffer;
+		glUnmapBufferARB = (GLEEPFNGLUNMAPBUFFERARBPROC) glUnmapBuffer;
+	}
+
 	// Set the 'default' texture (id 0) as a repeating white pixel.
 	// Otherwise, texture2D inside a shader would return black when drawing graphics primitives,
 	// which would create the need to use different "passthrough" shaders for untextured primitives vs images.