<div dir="ltr">Junxi,<div><br></div><div>Does your system also have an Intel video chip that it may be using? If so, ParaView may not be using your NVIDIA driver. You can check by going to the Help -> About ParaView menu item. What do the Open GL entries say?</div><div><br></div><div>To ensure ParaView is using your NVIDIA card, y<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">ou can try going to the </span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NVIDIA</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">control</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">panel</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">. Under 3D Settings in the<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">panel</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>on the left, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">click on "Manage 3D settings". On the right side, click on the "Global </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Settings" tab. Make sure "High-performance<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NVIDIA</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>processor" is </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">selected. Apply the changes, then run ParaView again to see if the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">problem is resolved.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Hope that helps,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Cory</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:38 AM Zhu Junxi <<a href="mailto:markzhumi1805@gmail.com">markzhumi1805@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<br><br>I am referred to this mailing list by a developer at the 3D Slicer forum. I installed the Paraview v5.5 (and nightly build of 3D Slicer) and both suffered from the same display issue, i.e., the interface of the software looks semi-transparent, please see attached picture (in case the picture does not show correctly, here is the dropbox link to it: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1bveei3gjg01svb/bbb.png?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/1bveei3gjg01svb/bbb.png?dl=0</a>). The developer at the 3D Slicer forum said it might be a video card driver issue and that I might get more help here. My computer is a desktop, with only one video card (GTX1080) and the driver version is 397.64 from the Geforce Experience software. The operating system is Windows 10 64 bit with latest April Update installed (I haven't tested Paraview before that...)<br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><img border="0" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)" src="https://discourse-cdn-sjc2.com/standard17/uploads/slicer/optimized/2X/f/f4fb406bea53dee59ca30e2c246f4bc965b6de7d_1_690x478.jpg"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><span style="background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">It also happens on 3D slicer nightly build (05/02) (in case it does not show correctly, here is the dropbox link to the picture: </span></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqj5yh0hcj5ma7v/aaa.png?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqj5yh0hcj5ma7v/aaa.png?dl=0</a></font><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">):</span></font></span><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><img border="0" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)" src="https://discourse-cdn-sjc2.com/standard17/uploads/slicer/optimized/2X/b/bd18ca06271d1d3e7f857c357f886e4722b92b24_1_690x432.png"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">BTW, when I first got Paraview v5.5 installed, it threw an OpenGL driver error upon launching. Then I updated the video card driver to the latest one and now the error is gone but the interface still seems semi-transparent.....</span><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">Any help is greatly appreciated!</span>  <br><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Junxi</div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cory Quammen<br>Staff R&D Engineer<br>Kitware, Inc.</div>