Bad Arctic Display Mode and Slow Rhino 6

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi Guys,

I’ve just upgraded the hardware on my computer to 16GB RAM and a SSD, but Rhino 6 (running on bootcamp) has not been working as I’d hoped.

First, and most obviously, Arctic Display looks more like Rhino 5’s rendered mode. Then, orbiting around 80mb 3D files is slow and frustrating.

Here is the report from Help > System Information:

Rhino 6 SR21 2019-12-17 (Rhino 6, 6.21.19351.09141, Git hash:master @ 4d373f64ffb55e3a8d607d9618590728d86fb1e9)
License type: Commercial, build 2019-12-17
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: Alice W ()

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 16Gb)
Machine name: DESKTOP-4BK29R3

Non-hybrid graphics.
Primary display and OpenGL: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 (Intel) Memory: 2GB, Driver date: 5-19-2016 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 1.1.0

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: Microsoft Corporation
Render version: 0.0
Shading Language: Not supported
Driver Date: 5-19-2016
Driver Version: 9.17.10.4459
Maximum Texture size: 1024 x 1024
Z-Buffer depth: 32 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 2108 MB

Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Update your video card drivers, they’re…well they’re not installed, you’re using the generic driver that comes with Windows.

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Hey @JimCarruthers thanks for your reply, I tried downloading the Intel 3000 drivers and installing them - was this the correct way to do it? Anyway, it didn’t work… You’re referring to the last paragraph of text from the System Information, right?

5

So it seems that part of the issue is that my graphics driver is not being recognised by Rhino 6. I have installed and uninstalled the drivers with no success. I have updated Rhino 6 to the latest build, accessed the Notifications panel (where it has advised downloading the Intel Driver & Support Assistant to look for updates) & checked for updates again. All with no success.

I’m at a bit of a loss now as to what I could do. Any further help would be amazing.

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So were things working correctly before your upgrade? The Intel 3000 is pretty obsolete, 2016 may in fact be the most up to date driver, it may simply not support OpenGl enough to do much.

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I was using Rhino for Mac on the iOS side of my partition. This version of Rhino recognises the Intel 3000 driver in the System Information dialog. Not sure why it’s not compatible on the Windows side.

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Well it appears there simply is no Windows 10 driver for it, just that the Windows 8 one worked for a while but doesn’t anymore.

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The Intel 3000 is not a supported graphics card for Windows Rhino V6. You will need a different computer to run V6 Windows Rhino.

The Intel HD 3000 was introduced in 2011.
That makes your computer 7-9 years old.
It’s time for a new computer.