[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Removing legacy rendering backend from ParaView 5.5

[Cory Quammen]

OpenGL 3.2 or higher is required.

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:52 AM, JAIRAJ MATHUR <hero.jairaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that! So just to be clear, what version of openGL will be
> supported?
>
> Jairaj Mathur
> Mechanical Engineering
> Washington University in St Louis
>
> On Jun 1, 2017 7:20 PM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this mean that my PC graphic card would need to support a higher
>>> version of open GL?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. But to be fair, OpenGL 3.2 was released in 2009. Alternatively, we
>> will be providing Mesa-Windows binaries soon as well. So you would be able
>> to get by by using software rendering, if your GPU is really old.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>
>
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Cory Quammen
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