diff --git a/drivers/gles2/rasterizer_storage_gles2.cpp b/drivers/gles2/rasterizer_storage_gles2.cpp
index 8cd63c7cbf1..88720dcf005 100644
--- a/drivers/gles2/rasterizer_storage_gles2.cpp
+++ b/drivers/gles2/rasterizer_storage_gles2.cpp
@@ -6315,6 +6315,10 @@ void RasterizerStorageGLES2::initialize() {
 	config.depth_internalformat = GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT;
 	config.depth_type = GL_UNSIGNED_INT;
 
+	// Initialize GLWrapper early on, as required for any calls to glActiveTexture.
+	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS, &config.max_texture_image_units);
+	gl_wrapper.initialize(config.max_texture_image_units);
+
 #ifdef GLES_OVER_GL
 	config.float_texture_supported = true;
 	config.s3tc_supported = true;
@@ -6506,8 +6510,6 @@ void RasterizerStorageGLES2::initialize() {
 	frame.clear_request = false;
 
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS, &config.max_vertex_texture_image_units);
-	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS, &config.max_texture_image_units);
-	gl_wrapper.initialize(config.max_texture_image_units);
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE, &config.max_texture_size);
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE, &config.max_cubemap_texture_size);
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS, config.max_viewport_dimensions);
diff --git a/drivers/gles3/rasterizer_storage_gles3.cpp b/drivers/gles3/rasterizer_storage_gles3.cpp
index b2755112d38..484daa93711 100644
--- a/drivers/gles3/rasterizer_storage_gles3.cpp
+++ b/drivers/gles3/rasterizer_storage_gles3.cpp
@@ -8157,6 +8157,10 @@ void RasterizerStorageGLES3::initialize() {
 	config.shrink_textures_x2 = false;
 	config.use_fast_texture_filter = int(ProjectSettings::get_singleton()->get("rendering/quality/filters/use_nearest_mipmap_filter"));
 
+	// Initialize GLWrapper early on, as required for any calls to glActiveTexture.
+	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS, &config.max_texture_image_units);
+	gl_wrapper.initialize(config.max_texture_image_units);
+
 	config.etc_supported = config.extensions.has("GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture");
 	config.latc_supported = config.extensions.has("GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc");
 	config.bptc_supported = config.extensions.has("GL_ARB_texture_compression_bptc");
@@ -8388,8 +8392,6 @@ void RasterizerStorageGLES3::initialize() {
 		glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
 	}
 
-	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS, &config.max_texture_image_units);
-	gl_wrapper.initialize(config.max_texture_image_units);
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE, &config.max_texture_size);
 	glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE, &config.max_cubemap_texture_size);