[Paraview] OpenGL Hardware acceleration of Paraview display

[Robert Michael O'Bara]

Were you using transparency at the time when it was running slow?

Bob

Robert M. O'Bara, MEng.
Research & Development Engineer

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On Jul 13, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Olumide 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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