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

[Burlen Loring]

Sweet!

On 04/16/2014 06:58 AM, Richard Grenon wrote:
> Hello Burlen,
>
> Problem solved. The NVIDIA driver 307.83 allows using the Version 2 
> LIC plugin pf PV 410 with my old GeForce 8700M GT card, and all my 
> other old graphic software (including games!) seems to accept this new 
> driver.
>
> Thank you 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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