Ah, indeed. ParaView 6.1 is using OptiX 6.0, which is quite old at this point, and NVIDIA has removed support from it in the 590 series of drivers. To continue using it with ParaView 6.1 and earlier, you’ll be stuck with the 580 driver series.
Starting with ParaView 6.2 (and I think 6.1.1), we will be exposing OptiX is updated to 8. It will serve as a backend to the ANARI interface in ParaView. Usage will be a little bit different in the details, but should feel familiar for the most part.
Hello Jacob. To “fix” the nvidia driver issue, I activated a setting (as described in the work-around) rather than rolling back a version. Paraview mentions some other functionality might not be available (ray-tracing perhaps?) but nothing like a slow-down.
We are working on Linux and don’t seem to have the work around described. We did get paraview to open normally again but now cases are either taking really long to display or not displaying properly