| Enable 3D OpenGL hardware acceleration | Enables graphics card acceleration. Clear this option if you experience serious graphics rendering problems.
Notes:
- Disabling this option might significantly degrade graphics performance.
- If you experience graphical display issues, press
R while in the viewport to reset the OpenGL engine.
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Advanced | Uses OpenGL frame buffer object (FBO) and other extensions to provide off-screen rendering. Enabling this setting:
- Is required for some capabilities such as cutting plane per-actor color capping, style preview-image generation, and high-quality rendering effects such as ambient occlusion.
- Improves Technical Illustration workshop results when using color regions and shadows.
- Improves Simplification - Occlusion results.
- Might avoid screen refresh problems associated with other rendering techniques, such as p-buffers and auxiliary buffers.
- Might reduce bitmap output problems, such as gray or black images.
Note:
This option is the same as
HardwareSupport.Advanced on the
Advanced Settings
page.
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| Standard | Disables FBO and other advanced extensions. You can selectively enable or disable rendering techniques, such as use of p-buffers and auxiliary buffers.
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| Enable p-buffer | Enables off-screen rendering with OpenGL using pixel buffers. Select this option to resolve problems with screen captures, printing, saved images, and other graphics operations. Rendering might also be hardware accelerated. |
| Static p-buffer | (Available when
Enable p-buffer is selected.) Uses static pixel buffers.
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| Enable direct swapping to refresh | Enables direct swapping to refresh. Clear this option if you have screen display problems such as highlighting problems. |
| Enable aux. buffers | Enables auxiliary buffers. Clear this option if the previous options do not solve your graphics problems. |
| Enable OpenGL display lists | Enables OpenGL display lists. A display list is a series of graphics commands that define an output image. Clear this option if you have problems such as invisible text. |
| Enable text reset | (Available when
Enable OpenGL display lists is selected.) Resets text display. Select this option if you have problems displaying text. |