The material tab is extremely slow. When I hover mouse over an material it takes almost a second or 2 for the material to highlight. Disabling material thumbnail preview helps a little bit but still very very slow. Didn’t have this issue in Rhino 7… Does anyone else have this issue?

Hey Ian. Sorry, I’m not on here much. It was solved in one of the updates, sometime in June, if I recall correctly.

[image] Ian Hwang: The material tab is extremely slow. When I hover mouse over an material it takes almost a second or 2 for the material to highlight. Disabling material thumbnail preview helps a little bit but still very very slow. Didn’t have this issue in Rhino 7… Does anyone else have this …

Hi @jessesn , Thank you for the fast reply. Please see below: Rhino 8 SR11 2024-9-10 (Rhino 8, 8.11.24254.15001, Git hash:master @ d3c11108eae09fadc146928ba51b9b182a05303f) License type: Commercial, build 2024-09-10 License details: Cloud Zoo Windows 11 (10.0.22621 SR0.0) or greater (Physical R…

Hi Jessesn, The problem with slow material tab & thumbnails has been persistive since the first service release. I don’t think updating will resolve it because this issue is never specifically addressed. I am positive Rhino is running on Nvidia GPU. The Rhino handles complex model very well if…

Sorry for the inconvenience. Could you pls help record a video about this issue? it seems that I haven’t found a similar problem on my side. Thanks.

Hi Iyang - [image] Ian Hwang: I don’t think updating will resolve it because this issue is never specifically addressed. I think this issue is being discussed here: [image] Material Dialogue and List Rendering Thank you for the test model. I tested with the followi…

@Iyang_Huang Can you take a screenshot of the material editor?

hi Wim, Thanks for the reply. I have tried the settings suggested in this thread. The problem persists with the EnableGL = False EnablePreview = False. I also think, this only poses a temporary makeover - we still need the preview back down the road. It was available in the previous builds of Rhin…

Hi Max, thanks for the reply. Please see here: [image]

Material Tab and thumbnail preview being extremely slow

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jessesn (Jessesn Chen) November 22, 2024, 2:53am 4

Thanks for your information, could you try to update to Rhino 8.13 ?
https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-windows/8/latest/

I noticed that your device has two graphic cards, could you try to make Rhino running on Nvidia display card ?

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