[Paraview] OpenGL Hardware acceleration of Paraview display

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Nope, the binaries we distribute are not built with mesa. If you run
the dependency walker on the binary you should see which OpenGL dll
it's bringing in. It should be the one provided by your system.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Olumide<50295 at web.de> wrote:
> Olesen, Mark wrote:
>>>
>>> Would someone please tell me if Paraview supports HW (OpenGL)
>>> acceleration and how to enable it.
>>
>> Sure it supports OpenGL. You just need to have the appropriate hardware
>> drivers working.
>> Assuming you are using Linux (you didn't say which OS you have), check
>> these things:
>
> I'm running Paraview on Windows XP, and OpenGL is correctly set up for my
> machine.
>
> What got me wondering about HW acceleration was my experience using Paraview
> to present results at a conference a few months ago. The display just seemed
> to drag, even though only a few apps (very basic) were running. This
> experience made me wonder if Paraview was compiled with Mesa, the software
> implementation of OpenGL.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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