[vtkusers] hardware specific?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

david michell wrote:
> Hi Everyone, Iam working an app using VTK and QT. Iam using VC 7.1
> .Net Enabled.
> 
> I have two systems with different graphics cards. One has got Rage XL
> PCI Family The other one has got Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics
> Controller.
> 
> When I run the app on these machines , the output I get is different.
> 
> 
> The one with Rage shows surface plots as real surfaces, whereas the
> Intel one shows surfaces plots as a bit foggy.
> 
> Ima also drawing grids using OpenGL lines, so the Intel one shows
> these grids, whereas the Rage one does not shows these lines.
> 
> Also the sytem with the Intel graphics card runs on XP, wherease the
> one with the Rage card runs on Windows Server 2003.
> 
> Can someone tell me what the problem could be and what the best
> graphics cards that is available to get the best performance from
> VTK.
> 
> Thank you, David Michell

If you never updated your opengl driver for your intel card, I suggest
you do it. BTW this was already posted in the ml archive:

http://vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2004-March/023205.html

Good luck,
Mathieu