I have downloaded the executable of paraview a few times, both 5.8 and the release candidate 5.9 and the program seems to open fine, but it crashes immediately when I pushed the ‘open file’ button. Have I missed a requirement when downloading?
I have 5.8 installed on a different computer and it works fine, but my IT department installed it, which is why I’m wondering if I have missed something.
I cannot try an older version, because I am working with very large tables and those versions have problems handling the data and crash themselves.
Yes, I also found this post. I tried most of the fixes:
Possible solutions are:
Upgrade to ParaView 5.8.1 or more recent
– have tried this and more recent
Use another GPU (eg: NVIDIA instead of Intel)
– tried right clicking and running with NVIDIA
Downgrade your Intel driver to the version before 26.20.100.6708
– My Intel driver version is 10.18.10.357, which seems appropriate, and in any case I am unable to roll back the driver (the option is unaccessible)
Upgrade your Intel driver to the version after 26.20.100.7528
–I’ve tried updating my driver and it says it is up to date
Very likely, this is caused by something weird in your configuration files. You can move them to the side, and try ParaView again. If this fixes the issue, please zip them up and give them to one of the Kitware team.
You can find their location on the paraview wiki, but from memory they are going to be something like Users/yourName/Roaming/ParaView.
This seemed to do it, thanks @mwestphal – the suggestion in the linked conversation that it could be Dell Backup and Recovery. It seems to be allowing me to open a file now. Thanks for the help with this!
Although there is a workaround, this sounds like something that can be fixed in ParaView (if one of the ParaView developers can replicate the problem). I raised a bug here:
