[Paraview] Why Paraview runs much faster on Windows than on Linux?

[Dominik Szczerba]

A very simple explanation would be the lack of hardware accelerated 
renedring drivers for the worse case.
-- Dominik

Weiguang Guan wrote:
> Hi Paraview users,
> 
> I've just bought a new computer and made it a dual-boot (Windows XP Pro 
> and Linux 2.6) machine. Then, I donwloaded and installed Paraview 3.2.1 
> on both platforms. To my surprise, Paraview runs at greatly different 
> speeds when rendering a unstructured dataset --- about 1.5 s/frame on 
> Windows vs 10 s/frame on Linux. I am sure in the test I used (1) the 
> same version of paraview; (2) same dataset (3) same setting 
> (Edit->Setting), ......
> 
> I can see that vtkOpenGLProjectedTetrahedraMapper is used.
> 
> Weiguang
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-- 
Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi