ParaView Freezes on start - Windows 10

AlexandreMagnolc · September 21, 2019, 9:29pm

Hello,

I’m beggining OpenFoam and trying to see some results on ParaView.
I’ve installed the ParaView-5.7.0-RC4-Windows-Python3.7-msvc2015-64bit, but it freezes right after opening.
This appears and then it freezes and closes byitself - a kind of force close.

paraview%20error

I’ve python 3.7.4 installed, AMD Radeon 7400M and Intel HD Graphics 3000
Open GL 6.14.10.13399
Direct 3D 9.14.10.01128
Catalyst 15.7.1

I think it could be something related to the graphics switching, i’m still trying, but I would apreciate a lot if anyoune could help.

Thanks in advance

aron.helser · September 23, 2019, 12:47pm

Try right-clicking on ParaView and say ‘run with graphics processor’ (I think that’s the right wording) and select your AMD card. I’m not sure why your are seeing an error about ANGLE - that seems strange.

AlexandreMagnolc · September 24, 2019, 12:45am

Thanks for the reply,
I forced the application to run under high performance on AMD configuration, but it still crashing.

mcrossleyuk · September 25, 2019, 9:27am

First of all, I have little experience but had fantastic service from PV 5.4.1 before recent changes to FreeCAD (0.18). Similar problem. I can start PV 5.4.1.1 but cannot open a file. It just hangs up if I try to open or indeed do anything from the menu bar. All I can then do is end task from task manager. I installed PV 5.7.0 and it works but having problems using it. Getting 5.4.1 working would be a big help.

mwestphal · September 30, 2019, 4:22am

@mcrossleyuk : please open your own thread.

@AlexandreMagnolc : could you try with mesa ?

paraview-mesa paraview from a console.

mcrossleyuk · September 30, 2019, 9:55am

Sorry, all new to me and don’t understand. I am logged into the forum as mcrossleyuk. How do I “open my own thread”. Happy to learn

mwestphal · September 30, 2019, 9:57am

https://discourse.paraview.org/c/paraview-support and click on “New Topic”.

mcrossleyuk · September 30, 2019, 10:04am

Thanks, done that. Lesson #1

AlexandreMagnolc · October 1, 2019, 1:30am

nothing “command not found” or “not an internal command”

mwestphal · October 4, 2019, 8:10am

My bad, windows release does not support mesa.

Are you able to run other opengl applications ? Qt Applications ?

You also could try to use pvpython and see if this fails or not.

AlexandreMagnolc · October 13, 2019, 2:44am

Yes, but it did not was abble to run paraView. I got a solution, I downloaded ubuntu and started over in linux. It’s working pretty well, now the problems are on the operator.

Thanks for the attemp

AlexandreMagnolc · October 13, 2019, 2:45am

I gave up trying it on windows. Do I have to close the thread?

yussyak · October 16, 2019, 3:19am

Hi, guys, I am having the same problem, any help to resolve this. I am using an HP 650 laptop with Intel Pentium CPU B970 @ 2.30GHz processor, Intel® HD graphics adapter and 6GB RAM. What could I have done wrong?

mwestphal · October 16, 2019, 3:52am

Do you have an HD 3000 graphics card ?
If so your computer does not support OpenGL on windows 10. See here for more info.

mwestphal · October 16, 2019, 3:53am

@cory.quammen : that’s the 3rd user with this problem. should we mention that somewhere ?

yussyak · October 17, 2019, 2:31am

Thanks I will check it out

cory.quammen · October 21, 2019, 7:58pm

I don’t know. We don’t keep a list of incompatible graphics hardware anywhere. Intel HD 3000 is pretty old at this point and discontinued.

mwestphal · October 23, 2019, 7:10am

Fair enough. This is a very common card though.

cbourcier · October 26, 2019, 1:54pm

Try the workaround I gave on this other thread

Richard_Burkon · March 29, 2020, 7:26pm

Hi,

I’m getting same problem. Windows 10, NVIDIA GeForce 1070, OpenGL installed. Unfortunately solution with mesa (opengl32.dll) doesn’t work. Tried ParaView version 5.8 / 5.6 Any idea, how to solve it? Thanks in advance!