[vtkusers] VTK with two graphics card

Aashish Chaudhary aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com
Sun Nov 17 11:58:29 EST 2013


Frank,

Can you try the newer version of VTK (However, I am not sure if that will
change this behavior).

This is Mac 10.8?

- Aashish


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Frank Gao <Frank.Gao at guidemia.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> There was a post last year related volume rendering with a system with two
> graphics card (Posted by Ian Lindsay).
> http://marc.info/?l=vtkusers&m=133059379506480. Here again:
>
> Many laptops have two graphics cards Intel HD and nVidia for example. I am
> trying to do volume rendering. The LoadExtension call returns true, and I
> went through the code, the system identified the nVidia card, all the
> extensions are good. However, when the volume rendering is actually done,
> obviously it goes to the HD card. Nothing is rendered.
>
> This basically make the nVidia card useless. Please note it does not help
> if I set the program to run with the high end card, and the HD card cannot
> be disabled either.
>
> Can somebody please help? By the way I am still using V5.4.
>
> Your reply is highly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank Gao
>
>
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| Aashish Chaudhary
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| Kitware Inc.
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