Artistic viewport is super slow in Rhino 6

Hi,

With artistic viewport in Rhino 6, “desktop” my drawing/model is very slow with move or rotate, the other viewports are much better and reasonable oke.
In Rhino 5 it is super fast (the same drawing)
I use 3dconnexion space mouse and mouse
On my laptop with Rhino 6 with a normal mouse it was oke in artistic viewport.

Thanks

Goedemorgen,

If you could please paste the text from the Rhino command _SystemInfo here we can better assess your situation.

Goedemorgen,

Also pen mode is slow but if I change the viewport a few times pen is oke but artistic not.

Rhino 6 SR9 2018-9-28 (Rhino 6, 6.9.18271.20591, Git hash:master @ 4cf7435f08f51c972347c8558d28355cfc0471ca)
Licence type: Commercial, build 2018-09-28
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: E.O.Stam ()

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 8Gb)
Machine name: DESKTOP-HRSTN0G

Quadro FX 580/PCIe/SSE2 (OpenGL ver:3.3.0)

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 3.3
Shading Language: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Driver Date: 11-14-2016
Driver Version: 21.21.13.4201
Maximum Texture size: 8192 x 8192
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 8192 x 8192
Total Video Memory: 512 MB

C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\SolidTools.rhp “SolidTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

I think your problem is your GPU. The Quadro FX 580 supports at most OpenGL 3.3, Rhino 6 recommended minimum OpenGL support is 4.1 (although in theory 3.3 should work). Rhino 6 demands more of the GPU than Rhino 5.

There aren’t really any newer drivers that I could find, apart from this: Quadro Desktop/Notebook Driver Branch 340 U15 | R340 U15 (342.01) | Windows 10 64-bit | NVIDIA - according the release notes it contains OpenGL 4.4 support, so maybe you could try that. Note though that this driver showed up only after clicking for non-certified drivers. Not sure how well this one is supported.

That said your GPU is getting a bit old (9 years since release), so maybe also good moment to consider upgrading for better Rhino 6 viewport performance.

Thank you.