[Paraview] computer locks up while saving screenshot or animation

[Berk Geveci]

The easiest solution is to go the Settings ->  Render View and then
turn off "Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots". You need CVS
paraview. The problem you are running into is due to driver issues.

-berk

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> This is a known problem for animations using onscreen rendering. Search the
> messages for the last 3 weeks in the list archives.
>
>  The current solution is not easy: build a version of ParaView from CVS
> using Mesa instead of OpenGL, and set the "use offscreen rendering" flag in
> cmake. The result works for me using pvbatch with the command line option
> "--use-offscreen-rendering".
>
>  I'm not sure if this solution will help if you use paraview or pvpython.
> I've only used the PNG writer and don't know about other writers.
>
>  Kent
>  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
>
>
>  Julian Cummings wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have experienced problems with my computer locking up and requiring a
> > hard restart while saving multiple screenshots or an animation with
> > ParaView.  I have a dual-core Opteron machine running Ubuntu 7.10 with a
> > Nvidia GeForce 6800 XTreme graphics card.  I have tried many different
> > versions of ParaView, including 2.x versions as well as the current CVS
> > development version, but they all give the same reproducible problem.  I
> > have built my ParaView installations with the ffmpeg encoder as
> > suggested in the instructions.  I have tried turning off the offscreen
> > rendering for screenshots option in the CVS development version of
> > ParaView as suggested in a previous post, but this does not help.  Has
> > anyone else experienced this sort of behavior before and/or have a
> > suggestion for this problem?
> >
> > Thanks, Julian C.
> >
>
>
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