Rh8 stealing the bandwidth and other problems

Rhino
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I know it’s been reported before.
I’m on the trip to discover the new features of Rhino 8 and I am experiencing some problems.

First: whenever I manipulate the views or do something more complex than drawing the curve, I experience the breaks in music streaming.
My internet connection is not bad at all even with several tabs open:

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Second: blurry icons. Graphic driver updated few days ago.

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Third: G2 and it’s learning curve
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How do I set the blending properties to tangency? It requires knowledge from G1 and inserting new panel with appropriate value. More work, less clear. Am I missing something obvious here? What’s happened with blending through point?
Right click doesn’t offer help as well. I guess it’s a long road ahead before I fully transition to V8 (let alone my team).

Four: viewport stutters quite often with no smooth rotation of few basic elements.
I have also witnessed layer panel opening ca. 10 sec and there are two layers in my file only.

I know my machine is old and it’s MBP but it doesn’t justify all of it.
System info attached:

Rhino 8 SR4 2024-1-30 (Rhino 8, 8.4.24030.15001, Git hash:master @ 97577baf4e4ae40c7f2ed3ef4e802db24f2e82ae)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-01-30
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 16GB)
.NET 7.0.0

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [99% battery remaining]

Non-hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: Radeon Pro 560X (AMD) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 7-28-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.14761 Compatibility Profile Context FireGL 21.30.45.18 30.0.13045.18005
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 6 adapter port(s)
- Laptop lid is possibly closed
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 1
Primary OpenGL: Radeon Pro 560X (AMD) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 7-28-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.14761 Compatibility Profile Context FireGL 21.30.45.18 30.0.13045.18005
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 6 adapter port(s)
- Laptop lid is possibly closed
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 1

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 8x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: ATI Technologies Inc.
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60
Driver Date: 7-28-2023
Driver Version: 30.0.13045.18005
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 4 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\Piotr\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\Grasshopper2\2.0.8799-wip.27629\Grasshopper2Plugin.rhp “Grasshopper2” 2.0.8799.27629

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshTools.rhp “MeshTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.4.24030.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

2

Are you sure there are no newer drivers available? Or are you just restricted by when such drivers are available for Apple hardware running Windows? Bootcamp, right? Not sure how well tested that is these days.

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I had some update recently. I’m surprised there is no evidence of it, but, at least, you can see there is nothing new available.

4

Are there no newer drivers directly from https://www.amd.com/en/support ?

5

The digital world is very confusing.
According to the AMD panel I own this card:
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and the latest driver installed is from 2023-07-28, but according to the AMD webpage the most recent driveris two years old.

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:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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You’d pick the adrenalin edition, which is the most current driver. But then again, this is a bootcamped laptop, correct? So this is a Radeon Pro 560X which was created specifically for Apple hardware.

7

V7 has no such problems. It is very stable and reliable. It only crashes when I do some rendering-related stuff but this is where you would expect this kind of issues (Apple card running on bootcamp).

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I’m not sure how well one should expect drawing performance to work on such a system. @stevebaer or @jeff probably can give a better insight here of what to expect.