Paraview 6.0.1 3D interaction latency/wiggles

ParaView Support
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Hello,

First, I would like to thanks Kitware’s developer for providing such great tool.

When trying to upgrade to 6.0.1, I noticed weird latency/wiggles of the meshed actor when interacting with a sphere source, which was not occurring with 5.11. I attached on screenshot video for each version, trying my best to highlight the issue.

Trying with a colleague of mine laptop’s revealed that the issue was due to our graphics card being slightly different, as reported by the Help -> About We have exactly the same fields except:

My laptop His
OpenGL Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2

Here is my full Help -> About report for 6.0.1:

Client Information:
Version: 6.0.1
VTK Version: 9.5.2
Qt Version: 6.9.0
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 6.0.1\bin\Lib
Python Library Version: 3.12.7 (tags/v3.12.7:0b05ead, Oct  1 2024, 03:06:41) [MSC v.1941 64 bit (AMD64)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 6.0.1\bin\lib\site-packages\numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.26.4
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 6.0.1\bin\lib\site-packages\matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.7.2
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: Off
ParaView Build ID: superbuild 8c0f929966f005396802f3b2957c734a6c68b3c1 (!1292)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory: 
Data Directory: 
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 20
OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL Version: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 576.83
OpenGL Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
Accelerated filters overrides available: No

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

For 5.11:

Client Information:
Version: 5.11.0
VTK Version: 9.2.20220823
Qt Version: 5.15.2
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.11.0\bin\lib
Python Library Version: 3.9.13 (tags/v3.9.13:6de2ca5, May 17 2022, 16:36:42) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.11.0\bin\Lib\site-packages\numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.21.1
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.11.0\bin\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.2.1
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: Off
ParaView Build ID: superbuild 296d2d1b237965dbf5059263bb6feac90417f250 (!1041)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory: 
Data Directory: 
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 20
OpenGL Vendor: Intel
OpenGL Version: 3.2.0 - Build 32.0.101.6881
OpenGL Renderer: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
Accelerated filters overrides available: No

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

Thanks in advance.

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Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics

In 5.11 you are somehow NOT using your GPU.
Maybe try doing that in 6.0.1 ?

3

Could you point me how to disable GPU usage in Paraview ?

4

This is not controlled by ParaView but by your system. Typically this should be done in NVidia Settings or Windows settings directly.

5

Indeed, deactivating the NVIDIA GPU temporary fixed the issue, as Paraview 6.0 now reports using Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics.

Do you think issuing a bug report in gitlab Paraview could help being able to use the GPU ?

6

this is probably a nvidia driver issue, not a ParaView issue. Please update your nvidia driver.

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Issue solved by updating nvidia drivers.

Actually, the issue only appears when having a second screen plugged, even after updating GPU drivers.

FYI: I’ve tried 2 different screens without any difference.

8

If that can help, it seems that the whole GUI is affected. See attached video.