Rhino only showing wireframe view, not shading (i have an old graphics card)

My laptop is kind of old, and only has a graphics card integrated with the processor, so rhino is only showing me wireframe views, when i change to shaded or render view it shows ok, until i move the camera or do any action it starts displaying as a wireframe, then i have to refresh the view again to get to back to normal, every time.

Is there a way to repair this?, i have used some other 3d modeling softwares in this laptop before, and something similar happened could be repaired when i turned off the Hardware Acceleration option, but in rhino nothing happened when i did that.

If there is no option, i thought of the turn around of applying a command to repeat selecting All and applying RefreshShaded command every secod or less, but i don’t know how to do it.

Thanks.

Hi @maraloaven, please run the command _SystemInfo and post the results.

Usually the first thing to check is the date of your display driver and if you can update it. Before disabling graphics acceleration you might try below (Rhino 6):

  1. Disable “GPU Tesselation” under RhinoOptions > View > OpenGL
  2. On the same page, set “Antialiasing” to None
  3. Turn Off “Use advanced GPU Lightning” for your Shaded displaymode
  4. Check if a simple box or sphere shades OK

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Ok, i just tried with those instructions, and there was no difference, i tried with Hardware Acceleration on and off.
I have the latest drivers.
Also, the shaded view is never as it should be, because it displays grayish/black sides.

Rhino 6 SR1 2018-1-23 (Rhino 6, 6.1.18023.13161, Git hash:master @ 92a80e9e2b29e4670a94deb0d656e234ca1fe036)

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 12Gb)

GDI Generic (OpenGL ver:1.1.0)

OpenGL Settings

  • Safe mode: Off*
  • Use accelerated hardware modes: Off*
  • Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On*
  • Anti-alias mode: None*
  • Mip Map Filtering: Linear*
  • Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height*
  • Vendor Name: Microsoft Corporation*
  • Render version: 0.0*
  • Shading Language: Not supported*
  • Driver Date: NA*
  • Driver Version: NA*
  • Maximum Texture size: 1024 x 1024*
  • Z-Buffer depth: 32 bits*
  • Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384*
  • Total Video Memory: 128 MB*

*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” *
*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\Alerter.rhp “Alerter” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse” *
*C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement” *
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\digitize_Faro_Titanium.rhp “Faro USB Digitizer”

It looks like you turned hardware acceleration off. Please turn it back on, restart Rhino and run SystemInfo again. Thanks

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Staying the same.

Rhino 6 SR1 2018-1-23 (Rhino 6, 6.1.18023.13161, Git hash:master @ 92a80e9e2b29e4670a94deb0d656e234ca1fe036)

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 12Gb)

GDI Generic (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: None
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: 2076 MB

C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands”
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”
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”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

Hi @maraloaven, i would suggest to update your Rhino 6 SR1 to the current SR.

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I don’t want to sound disrespectful, nor a fool, but the update is not the problem, and we all know it, i would like to know if there is other solution.

Hello - What makes you say that?

-Pascal

There has been 20 updates since you installed. Twenty! Just update it already. That’s trouble-shooting 101.

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