ParaView Freezes on start - Windows 10

[AlexandreMagnolc]

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

[yussyak]

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 (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

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

OPENGL not supported in WINDOWS 10 and Intel HD graphics card, GLEW could not be intialized missing GL version

I can’t open Paraview on a Windows 10 64 bit machine. I get the error: GLEW could not be intialized missing GL version By doing some research on google I have found that the latest Intel drivers for Windows 10 for Intel HD 3000 graphics adapters do not support OpenGl which seem totally necessary for ParaView. In this YouTube video and the associated GitHub channel a solution is provided: It consists of installing the Windows 10 Deployment Kit (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardwa…

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

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

[yussyak]

Thanks I will check it out

[cory.quammen (Cory Quammen (Kitware))]

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 (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

Fair enough. This is a very common card though.

[cbourcier (Christophe Bourcier)]

Try the workaround I gave on this other thread

[Richard_Burkon (Richard Burkoň)]

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!

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

Please share the bottom part of Help -> About.

[Richard_Burkon (Richard Burkoň)]

Hi, I can’t click on anything in ParaView. Full screen of program freezes, there is “loading” mouse icon (program doesn’t responding) and after 5 seconds program closes itself.

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

Are you able to do the following ?

• Open a terminal
• Navigate to ParaView bin directory
• pvpython.exe

     from paraview.simple import *
     info = GetOpenGLInformation()
     info.GetVendor()
     info.GetVersion()
     info.GetRenderer()

[Richard_Burkon (Richard Burkoň)]

It looks like, that ParaView (or pvpython.exe) doesn’t see any OpenGL installed

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

My bad, I forgot a line. See above.

[Richard_Burkon (Richard Burkoň)]

Updated screen

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

That looks like a bug in Qt. Ideally, you would want to build ParaView yourself with different version of Qt to see if you can reproduce.

[Richard_Burkon (Richard Burkoň)]

Sounds little bit complicated . I rather installed Ubuntu to VirtualBox and I’m using ParaView in Ubuntu (no errors there ). But thanks for your help!

[wascott (Walter Alan Scott)]

Really sweet trick, @mwestphal. One of us should write it up in Tips and Tricks? You want to do it, or shall I?

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

Please do if you want, but it is already present in ParaView 5.7.0 release notes :

ParaView 5.7.0 Release Notes - Kitware Blog

[wascott (Walter Alan Scott)]

I think that having this in the 5.7.0 release notes is good enough, and if anyone searches discourse, they should find this topic. Lets not add it to the tips and tricks, as you recommend. Nice feature, by the way!