Opengl Fix Download
Haldis Momeni
In these days of social distancing, game developers and content creators all over the world are working from home and asking for help using Windows Remote Desktop streaming with the OpenGL tools they use. NVIDIA has created a special tool for GeForce GPUs to accelerate Windows Remote Desktop streaming with GeForce drivers R440 or later. Download and run the executable (nvidiaopenglrdp.exe) from the DesignWorks website as Administrator on the remote Windows PC where your OpenGL application will run. A dialog will confirm that OpenGL acceleration is enabled for Remote Desktop and if a reboot is required.
Never posted here before, but I used opengl for my 3D graphics. Below is a link to my latest devlogs, but the earlier ones from a year a go or so show the progression from nothing rendered to something rendered. I played with Vulkan a while ago and wrote more code to get a triangle rendered than probably all the opengl code I have now, so no thanks. The clients currently are only running on windows, so maybe directx would have been a better choice, but I used opengl in grad school and liked it.
using nvidia quadro fx 360m (supports up to opengl 3.3) with opengl set to 3.3 in options > view > opengl, rhino works nicely, the only problem is, that it often freezes on startup/open. the filesize does not matter. Usual scenario when starting rhino or opening a file is: startscreen pops up, gpu usage goes to 100% for about 5-10sec, viewports become black (and if it does not freeze the OS at this point completely, which is about every other time) then it runs good.
running rhino using opengl 2.1, then the startup and opening of files is immediate (no freeze, no 100% gpu usage). When modelling, rhino runs very fast on files 50mb size, but Sun/Skylight or Print rasters do not work (in 3.3 they do).
Would it be possible to switch from one opengl to the other as if switching viewports? I asumme not, since opengl change is options requires rhino restart
Can rhino create an event log and dump it to txt? I would like to debug this, since rhino causes a freeze of OS on startup, crash log is not made by rhino.
Perhaps someone could help explain why those features do not work under opengl 2.1? Could they work?
Just to make it a bit harder > please limit the answer to software solutions (no hardware change). Other programs that use HW acceleration open good.