I am using ParaView 5.8.0 on Windows 10, and my GUI is completely broken, with missing icons! What is happening?

mwestphal · June 29, 2020, 12:19pm

This is due to the "Intel Driver Bug., You can find all info about it here:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/19364

Possible solutions are:

Use another GPU (eg: NVIDIA instead of Intel)
Downgrade your Intel driver to the version before 26.20.100.6708
Upgrade your Intel driver to the version after 26.20.100.7528
Use mesa instead : How to run ParaView (including the binary release) using Mesa on Windows
Use a recent ParaView nightly (after a5e56e85cff6f80664ec57edf4ba6a8b6a84e2ed)
Use ParaView 5.6.2

Richard · June 19, 2020, 6:26am

Thank you Matthieu, indeed the INtel CPU driver fall into the problematic range but I was expected ParaView to run using my GPU as shown in Help -> About

SO I quite do not understand why I am still experiencing the bug

Thank you

mwestphal · June 19, 2020, 7:50am

That is unexpected.

@cory.quammen @utkarsh.ayachit

@Richard : Can you try the other work arounds and see how it goes ?

Richard · June 19, 2020, 1:03pm

Mathieu thank you

Am I really using my GPU then ??? Sometimes I doubt it when I see relatively poor rendering performance for a 1M element model

How can I verify that?

Thank you

mconti · June 19, 2020, 1:28pm

My company has seen this issue with both the wrong Intel drivers and when your computer is using integrated graphics instead of your GPU. Right click on the icon on your desktop and try switching it before start up.

Just something to try.

Richard · June 19, 2020, 1:59pm

Thank you Marston … but I do not have that option

Richard · June 20, 2020, 11:02am

@mwestphal No more luck despite running Paraview apprantely on GPU as indicated by Help[_> about (which I am still doubtful about seeing slow performance on 1M element model)) I tried installing drivers Version: 27.20.100.8280 but got the following error message