[Paraview] Machine hangs when using Paraview

[David E DeMarle]

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Edit->Settings->RenderView->Depth Peeling, make sure "Enable Depth
Peeling" is not checked.

Depth peeling is the algorithm ParaView uses to enforce a correct
front to back order of translucent rendered geometry. It is fairly
graphics hardware intensive.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:43 AM, wang <wang at knmi.nl> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I don't know what is depth peeling. It only happens
> when I make the color transparent.
>
> Xueli
>
> David E DeMarle wrote:
>>
>> Does turning off depth peeling make the problem will stop?
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:13 AM, wang<wang at knmi.nl>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Paraview Users,
>>>
>>> I experience probelm with Paraview after the Fedora operation system is
>>> installed. Whenever opacity is reduce from 1.0 the machine hangs. The
>>> only
>>> way to step over is to reboot the machine. Reboot doesn't always OK.
>>> Sometimes it took a while before the monitor can show something. Paraview
>>> versions 3.8 and 3.10 make no difference. Also Fedora13 and 14 makes no
>>> difference.
>>>
>>> Does anybody else have the same problem? I'm keen on hearing your
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Xueli
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