I wish there was support for accelerated graphics!!!

[billko]

I mean, OpenGL is cross platform, right?  Let's bring graphics performance at least into this century.

[Petru_Tarabuta]

Hi Bill,

+1.

What do you mean by bringing graphics acceleration/OpenGL into LabVIEW? It sounds like it could only be a useful feature, but what exactly would you like to see? Sorry if this question is a bit basic, I haven't had the need to use graphics acceleration/OpenGL yet.

[wiebe@CARYA]

The rendering in LabVIEW is done in Mesa3D (AFAIK, at least under windows).

Mesa3D is an open source OpenGL implementation. Not sure why it doesn't use 3D acceleration, Mesa3D should be able to to that (FAQ — The Mesa 3D).

3D GPU acceleration is possible. The 3D picture is rendered using OpenGL. 

Go figure...

EDIT: The mesa.dll that ships with LV is 3.0.2. Current version is 23.1.6... If that's the same versioning, it might explain things... I did replace mesa.dll in "national instruments\shared" with osmesa.dll, downloaded from Releases mesa-dist-win (github.com). It works fine, but still no GPU support. This could be my laptop, it seems my GPU is spared, maybe to preserve battery. YMMV.

EDIT2: If that version is so far behind, an update seems like a good idea. This should get some attention. +1 for me.

[wiebe@CARYA]

>Sorry if this question is a bit basic, I haven't had the need to use graphics acceleration/OpenGL yet.

All LV's 3D controls are actual rendered 3D objects (not just a picture).

So while you might not 'need' a GPU, 3D things will run smoother on a GPU than with software rendering...

[wiebe@CARYA]

>EDIT: The mesa.dll that ships with LV is 3.0.2. Current version is 23.1.6... If that's the same versioning, it might explain things... I did replace mesa.dll in "national instruments\shared" with osmesa.dll, downloaded from Releases mesa-dist-win (github.com). It works fine, but still no GPU support. This could be my laptop, it seems my GPU is spared, maybe to preserve battery. YMMV.

EDIT: LV actually uses the one in LabVIEW 2020\Resource. Replacing that one, LV starts but crashes...

[crossrulz]

With some quick digging, I found a release for mesa.dll 3.1 released in December 1999.  Yeah, I think it is far past time to update.

[Yamaeda]

@crossrulz so the initial "Let's bring graphics performance at least into this century" wasn't hyperbolic!

[wiebe@CARYA]

>@crossrulz so the initial "Let's bring graphics performance at least into this century" wasn't hyperbolic!

Don't know if I want to laugh or cry.

[Yamaeda]