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

[Richard Grenon]

Hello Burlen,

Thank you for this information.

Indeed, my laptop is very old: it is a Toshiba Satellite X 200 with 
Vista 32 bits that I purchased in 2007. The NVIDIA driver has been 
automatically updated by Windows update to the 7.15.11.7626 version in 
2008 or 2009, I don't remember. The most recent Vista 32 bits driver 
that Toshiba gives on its download page for this laptop is only the 
7.15.11.7605 version that is older than the version I got from Windows 
update!

I have downloaded the 307.83 version on the NVIDIA download page, and my 
card is in the list of compatible cards. I hope it's true! I will try to 
update my driver this evening.

Thanks again.

Richard

Le 15/04/2014 18:31, Burlen Loring a écrit :
> 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
>

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