diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibGL/SoftwareGLContext.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibGL/SoftwareGLContext.cpp
index 1728b0516b..9aa756796e 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibGL/SoftwareGLContext.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibGL/SoftwareGLContext.cpp
@@ -1765,11 +1765,15 @@ void SoftwareGLContext::gl_bind_texture(GLenum target, GLuint texture)
     }
 
     auto it = m_allocated_textures.find(texture);
+    RefPtr<Texture> texture_object;
 
-    // The texture name does not exist
-    RETURN_WITH_ERROR_IF(it == m_allocated_textures.end(), GL_INVALID_VALUE);
-
-    auto texture_object = it->value;
+    // OpenGL 1.x supports binding texture names that were not previously generated by glGenTextures.
+    // If there is not an allocated texture, meaning it was not previously generated by glGenTextures,
+    // we can keep texture_object null to both allocate and bind the texture with the passed in texture name.
+    // FIXME: Later OpenGL versions such as 4.x enforce that texture names being bound were previously generated
+    //        by glGenTextures.
+    if (it != m_allocated_textures.end())
+        texture_object = it->value;
 
     // Binding a texture to a different target than it was first bound is an invalid operation
     // FIXME: We only support GL_TEXTURE_2D for now