[Paraview] [Paraview-developers] ParaView 5.4.0 Release Candidate 1 binaries are available for download

[Cory Quammen]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Deij-van Rijswijk, Menno
<M.Deij at marin.nl> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
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> TL;DR: I have to manually configure that the high-performance NVidia card is used for ParaView to get rid of problems with the FXAA option.
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> I notice here that the default-ON option of FXAA is giving problems. When enabled, there is at the beginning a smaller black rectangle in the render view where the axes widget should be. When a 3D geometry is loaded and Apply is clicked, the view becomes totally black. Disabling FXAA will show the geometry without having to restart ParaView.
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> I have a laptop with an NVidia 840M and an integrated GPU (Intel HD 5500). I have to manually enable the NVidia card for ParaView to get rid of this behaviour, so it looks like the Intel card is at fault.

I have seen the same thing on my PC with an NVIDIA card and Intel
integrated GPU. Obviously, FXAA isn't working with some Intel
integrated GPUs. I, too, had to specifically enable my NVIDIA card.
But that's what ParaView should ideally be using anyway.

ParaView 5.4.0 RC-2 has some improvements to ParaView's Qt widget for
rendering that *may* improve the situation. That should be out later
today (US east coast time) or tomorrow.

> Interestingly, when the NVidia card is active I can also enable/disable an FXAA option in the NVidia control panel. When I enable it, the screen looks totally wrong, as if everything (menus, buttons, etc.) is anti-aliased.

Ah, I haven't seen that option. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks,
Cory

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Cory Quammen
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 5:18 PM
> To: ParaView; ParaView Developers
> Subject: [Paraview-developers] ParaView 5.4.0 Release Candidate 1 binaries are available for download
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> On behalf of the ParaView development community, I am happy to announce that binaries and source code for ParaView 5.4.0-RC1 are available to download from
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> http://www.paraview.org/download/
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> Please let us know if you run into any problems with this release candidate.
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> Thank you,
> Cory
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> Cory Quammen
> Staff R&D Engineer
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Cory Quammen
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