# bad 2d plots
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 30, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526 "2021-06-30T19:06:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/1 "2021-06-30T19:06:48Z")
I have a user that is seeing bad 2d plots. They save correctly, they just don’t display correctly.
- Windows, ParaView 5.9.1 (and 5.9.0). 5.8.0 works correctly
- Wavelet. Apply. Plot over line. Apply.
Here is a File/ Save Screenshot
and a Snip/ Screengrab:
---
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/2 "2021-06-30T19:07:28Z")
@mwestphal @cory.quammen
---
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/3 "2021-06-30T19:09:57Z")
Here’s the about:
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/4 "2021-06-30T19:12:55Z")
> [@wascott](#):
>
> Snip/ Screengrab:
What’s a snip ? Which software is being used ?
---
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/5 "2021-06-30T19:47:50Z")
Any (not sure which the user used), but one example would be Windows/ Start/ Snipping Tool. It basically is a pixel grab of what is on your screen.
Here is a snip using another tool of the Snipping Tool:
---
### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/6 "2021-07-01T00:03:12Z")
So the images save fine out of ParaView, but the Snipping Tool is not grabbing the screen contents okay? I’ve never seen that and don’t know that we would know how to debug what the Snipping Tool is doing. Is the display on which the problem is seen unusual, such as a HiDPI display?
---
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/7 "2021-07-01T00:07:26Z")
- File/ Save Screenshot is working fine.
- Visually looking at the 2d plot looks like trash.
- Taking a screen scrape of what is on the screen, using a tool such as the Snipping Tool, looks like trash.
Good question with regards to the HiDPT display. I will ask.
---
### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/8 "2021-07-01T00:09:07Z")
Hmmm … I wonder if this is a video card problem? I was thinking a driver issue, but maybe not?
---
### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-2d-plots/7526/9 "2021-07-01T01:30:40Z")
Thanks for clarifying. Very strange indeed.
That driver (359.06) is 6 years old at this point, and the NVIDIA Quadro 600 came out 11 years ago. It could very well be a graphics card or driver issue.