[Paraview] LIC plugin version 2 of PV 410 Windows 32 bits fails : unsupported NVIDIA card driver ?

[Burlen Loring]

Hi Richard,

Your video card is fairly old and it doesn't support the extensions used 
by the new version.

The 2.0 Surface LIC in PV 4.1 is a true parallel implementation and has 
additional requirements compared with the original serial code. However, 
there are no exotic requirements, all have been adopted into the OpenGL 
standard many years ago. So most recent hardware/drivers will provide 
the required extensions.

NVIDIA's spec 
sheet(http://developer.download.nvidia.com/opengl/specs/g80specs.pdf) 
doesn't show support for GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float. Based on the info 
you provided that's my best guess as to what's wrong. However, I found a 
mention( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series) that the new 
drivers for the 8 series support OpenGL 3.3, which includes floating 
point depth buffer. Updating your driver may resolve the issue.

Burlen


On 04/15/2014 03:58 AM, Richard Grenon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Windows Vista 32 bits with NVIDIA graphic card GeForce 8700M GT, 
> the PV 401 LIC plugin works fine, but the PV 410 LIC plugin gives 
> always this error:
>
>> ERROR: In 
>> C:\DBD\pvs-x32\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\Rendering\OpenGL\vtkTextureObject.cxx, 
>> line 1231
>> vtkTextureObject (12FAC3F0): failed at glTexImage2D 1 OpenGL errors 
>> detected
>>   0 : (1280) Invalid enum
>>
>>
>>
>> Generic Warning: In 
>> C:\DBD\pvs-x32\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\Rendering\LIC\vtkSurfaceLICPainter.cxx, 
>> line 981
>> SurfaceLIC is not supported
>> vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow
>> NVIDIA Corporation that your video card does not support, to find w
>> 2.1.2
>> GeForce 8700M GT/PCI/SSE2
>> LIC support = 1
>> floating point texture formats = 0
>> render buffers = 1
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In 
>> C:\DBD\pvs-x32\paraview\src\paraview\VTK\Rendering\LIC\vtkSurfaceLICPainter.cxx, 
>> line 2073
>> vtkPSurfaceLICPainter (11414500): SurfaceLIC is not supported
>>
>
> I have seen in the "Tools->Manage plugins" menu that the LIC plugin 
> Version is 1 in PV 401 and 2 in PV 410. Does the Version 2 work only 
> with recent drivers ?
>
> My NVIDIA driver version number is 7.15.11.7626 from 2008. Two years 
> ago, I tried to update it with a version that was recommended by 
> NVIDIA (296.10) and that should be compatible with my old graphic 
> card, but some of my graphic codes have shown some artifacts, and I 
> had to return to the old driver. So it would be fine if I could use a 
> LIC plugin without changing my driver. I tried to replace the Version 
> 2 LIC plugin of PV 410 by  the Version 1 LIC plugin of PV 401, but I 
> did not succeed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard
>
>

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