Rhino 8 still reading as "Rhino 5" in Nvidia App?

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Always wondered this, and don’t believe I’ve ever asked and/or seen the information on the forum. If it was recognized as Rhino 8, would it then work? And more importantly, I guess: Should this even matter to me?

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EDIT: SysInfo

Rhino 8 SR32 2026-5-17 (Rhino 8, 8.32.26137.11001, Git hash:master @ 55e234c2e55fba272cb773872a38a00bbafd3735)
License type: Commercial, build 2026-05-17
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26200 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET 8.0.27

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (NVidia) Memory: 24GB, Driver date: 4-23-2026 (M-D-Y).

Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
  • Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1
    Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 (NVidia) Memory: 16GB, Driver date: 4-23-2026 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 596.36

Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • There are no monitors attached to this device!

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: 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: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 4-23-2026
Driver Version: 32.0.15.9636
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 16376 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Cyberstrak\R8\CS_ModelingPlugIn.rhp “Cyberstrak Modeling PlugIn”
C:\Users\alanf\Dropbox\Rhino_MasterDB\packages\8.0\Garage\8.7.24140\net7.0\Garage.rhp “Garage” 8.7.24140.15431
C:\Users\alanf\Dropbox\Rhino_MasterDB\packages\8.0\OVFP-Rhino-UE-Bridge\0.7.4\OVFP Rhino UE Bridge.rhp “OVFP Rhino UE Bridge” 0.7.8600.22536
C:\Users\alanf\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\SubstanceImporter\2.0.7\Substance.Win.rhp “SubstanceImporter” 2.0.7.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.32.26137.11001
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\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.32.26137.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.32.26137.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.32.26137.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.32.26137.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.32.26137.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.32.26137.11001
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”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedPositions.rhp “Named Position”

Thanks!

-- Alan

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Hi,

The bigger question here is what does Rhino 8 think about your Graphics Card affiliation. Does it report that you’re still on your motherboards integrated Graphics chip… or is it recognizing the existence of your dedicated card?

What do you see if you look at…(View menu) >Rhino Option >OpenGL?

Rhino’s basic View port rendering work is driven by OpenGL compatibility… the larger rendering jobs benefiting from your dedicated graphics card.

So long as your Rendering Projects are coming out okay, I think your safe here. I’m not so sure what optimization setting NVIDIA has pre-configured for a CAD program… and I don’t know what aspect of these settings Rhino is directly concerned with.

Also within… Rhino Options >Advanced >Filtering (search box) Rhino Cycles… you should find a detailed list of setting that Rhino checks upon. I would imagine that these take precedence over what NVIDIA is reporting on it’s side of the configuration.

… Do you see a way of ‘Manually’ adding in your Rhino 8 Profile within the NVIDIA Control Panel?

I see now that you have created another post where you provide some of the info I was asking about here. So you may very well have already looked into what I am suggesting above. For anyone else who is getting into this loop by way of viewing this thread first… here is a link to the other related thread on this forum… UI suddenly completely wonky RH8

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Thanks for the reply, and I’ve added my SysInfo in the my original post question (above.)

Nvidia does see both my GPUs and correctly labels them, along with the fact that the monitors are plugged into the 3090.

When I go to use Nvidia Control Panel instead, it shows Rhino 8, but then I guess shows what you’ve mention as the maybe the Profile?

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Again, don’t know if it matters