<div dir="ltr">Hello Cory,<div><br></div><div>I tried a bunch of different versions and found out that those with Qt5 does not work while those with Qt4 looks fine (i.e., v5.3 and above does not work, the latest version that works is v5.2.0 with Qt4). It seems that it has something to do with the Qt5. I am wondering if other users are experiencing similar issues with Qt5?</div><div><br></div><div>As for add-ons, do you have a list of specific add-ons that you are particularly suspicious of? My desktop has a bunch of software installed but they are either work-related (e.g., Matlab) or seemingly harmless (e.g., steam). BTW, I don't have Nahimic sound driver, which I saw other people reporting messing up with Qt.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Junxi</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 8:36 PM Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com">cory.quammen@kitware.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"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:40 AM Zhu Junxi <<a href="mailto:markzhumi1805@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzhumi1805@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Cory,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for such a quick reply. I checked the OpenGL entries and it is indeed using the NVIDIA video card. The OpenGL renderer is listed as GeForce GTX1080/PCIe/SSE2. I search online and although people say my i7-6700k processor has a built-in 530 graphics card, I do not see it in the device manager somehow......</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Okay, thanks for checking. We have encountered a number of issues with Intel graphics in the last year or so, but driver updates have mainly resolved most of them. That doesn't seem to be the concern here, though.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I have also tried the NVIDIA control panel. I did not find the High performance NVIDIA processer you mentioned in the global settings, but I did change the OpenGL renderer to GTX1080.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>That should ensure you are using the GTX1080, but it looks like ParaView already was using it.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>However, Paraview still cannot display correctly after applying the changes (so does the 3D Slicer). I am wondering if you need any system logs to diagnose this issue and I would be happy to provide them.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I can't think of any system logs that would help. But there are a couple things you could try.</div><div><br></div><div>1). Install an older version of ParaView and see if that works. If it does, that will help us narrow down possible reasons for the transparency you are using. ParaView 4.4 would be a good one to try: <a href="https://www.paraview.org/download/" target="_blank">https://www.paraview.org/download/</a></div><div><br></div><div>2). Do you have any add-ons to Windows installed that modify the window system in some way? If so, try disabling or uninstalling those.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks, and sorry for the trouble.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Cory</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Junxi</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:22 AM Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" target="_blank">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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="m_8403344872941466189gmail-m_8362406760584134626m_7801463209905085889m_2160816946467843091gmail-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="m_8403344872941466189gmail-m_8362406760584134626m_7801463209905085889m_2160816946467843091gmail-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="m_8403344872941466189gmail-m_8362406760584134626m_7801463209905085889m_2160816946467843091gmail-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="m_8403344872941466189gmail-m_8362406760584134626m_7801463209905085889m_2160816946467843091gmail-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="m_8403344872941466189gmail-m_8362406760584134626m_7801463209905085889m_2160816946467843091gmail-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><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:38 AM Zhu Junxi <<a href="mailto:markzhumi1805@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzhumi1805@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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