[Paraview] GPU volume rendering failure on Intel HD XXXX/Iris, Windows and recent drivers

[Simon ESNEAULT]

Dear Aashish,

Thank you very much for you answer.
Yes you are right, we are waiting for a new VTK release that defaults to
the new OpenGL2 backend, for safety and because a change of VTK version
requires a lot of extra work with our current framework... But the green
dashboard indeed looks really promising, and we will probably make the move
as soon as it's ready !

Meanwhile, I would be really glad if you could send me the patch that
solves this issue with the old backend, or guide me through the needed
modification to make it work.

Thanks again
Simon

2015-07-17 16:22 GMT+02:00 Aashish Chaudhary <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com>
:

> Dear Simon,
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Simon ESNEAULT <simon.esneault at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We're experiencing GPU volume rendering failure on a lot (maybe all ?)
>> Intel HD windows system with up to date drivers.
>>
>> This is reproducible in Paraview or with the GPURenderDemo example from
>> VTK, just load a volume and try to render the volume... Here is a result
>> image from paraview on a Dell Latitude E7450 (Intel HD 5500 inside), with
>> GPU rendering [1] and the same volume with CPU VR rendering [2].
>> Interestingly, the volume rendering used to work with drivers older or
>> equal to the version 10.18.10.3496 [3]. As a work around, we ask our
>> customers to downgrade their driver version to this one, and they're
>> enjoying smooth GPU rendering. But this driver is quite old and does not
>> support recent chipset...
>>
>> I've built and tested the GPURenderDemo with the brand new OpenGL2
>> backend on an affected machine and of course it does work out of the box
>> (congratulations for this amazing work !).
>>
> Great!
>
>
>> But our application is FDA/CE marked and we need to wait that this new
>> backend is completely ready for prime time. So for now, we have to stick
>> with VTK 6.1 ...
>>
>
> Most of the tests are passing for OpenGL2 (
> https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK) on most of the dashboards
> (various configurations etc) but it is a moving target just like VTK itself
> is a moving target. I guess you are waiting for a VTK release that defaults
> to OpenGL2 as oppose to OpenGL?
>
>>
>> Anyone has any clue ? They're some warning that pop up from paraview
>> related to the extension "gl_version_1_2" that could not be loaded, not
>> sure if that could be related ? Following this thread [4] and the fix
>> proposed, I've tried to replace
>> /*****************/
>> extensions->LoadExtension("GL_VERSION_1_2")
>> /*****************/
>> by
>> /*****************/
>> extensions->LoadExtension("GL_EXT_texture3D");
>> extensions->LoadExtension( "GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two" );
>> /*****************/
>> in the vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cxx, The warning disappears but
>> there is still no volume rendering (tested with GPURenderDemo). Maybe it
>> needs some others extensions ?
>>
>
> Yes, there is a patch and I can send it to you. I have to talk to folks
> here if we can fix the old mapper with those changes but as of now it is
> not in the plan.
>
>
>>
>> Should I fill a bug in paraview, vtk ? Are there any plan to maintain and
>> maybe fix this for the old backend ?
>>
>
> - Aashish
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Simon Esneault
>> Rennes, France
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> [1] http://picpaste.com/pics/Paraview-4-3-1-GPU-VR_fail.1437122217.PNG
>> [2] http://picpaste.com/pics/Paraview-4-3-1-CPU-VR_win.1437122267.PNG
>> [3] https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=23339
>> [4] http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2014-April/083584.html
>>
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