[Paraview] Optimus and Windows 10

[Paul Melis]

Thanks, good to know. We'll try 5.2 (qt4) if the issue surfaces again,

Paul

On 05-12-17 14:13, Aron Helser wrote:
> Yes, that Intel driver bug is known to affect ParaView:
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17499
> 
> Regards,
> Aron
> 
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Jonathan Borduas 
> <jonathan.borduas at caboma.com <mailto:jonathan.borduas at caboma.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Was the laptop running with the intel gpu ? If so, it might be
>     related to an Intel driver bug that was reported on the QT and Intel
>     websites.
> 
>     https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40485
>     <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40485>
> 
>     https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/744153
>     <https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/744153>
> 
>     Jonathan Borduas
> 
>     _________________________
>     From: Paul Melis <paul.melis at surfsara.nl
>     <mailto:paul.melis at surfsara.nl>>
>     Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 04:16
>     Subject: [Paraview] Optimus and Windows 10
>     To: <paraview at paraview.org <mailto:paraview at paraview.org>>
> 
> 
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     In our paraview course two weeks ago we had a student that had trouble
>     running Paraview 5.4.1 (official windows 64-bit binaries) under windows
>     10. The symptoms were that the main menu bar was invisible and that the
>     mouse cursor did not match up with the position of the click event,
>     making it very hard to do anything. It seemed the menu bar somehow had
>     shifted under the window title bar, causing the misalignment.
> 
>     As this laptop was an optimus system we figured it might have something
>     to do with that. After some fiddling we found that right-clicking on
>     paraview.exe and picking Run with graphics processor ->
>     High-performance
>     NVIDIA processor solved the problem.
> 
>     Is this a known issue?
> 
>     Regards,
>     Paul
> 
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