Rhino viewports will NOT antialias

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hello, first time posting here.

I just purchased a really nice lenovo W540 workstation laptop and despite its having a Quadro K2100M, I cannot get lines in rhino 5 SR7 viewports to antialias. I have it enabled in Properties --> View --> OpenGL. The “Use accelerated Hardware modes” box is checked, and in my Rhino.exe profile in the nvidia control panel I’ve made sure that Rhino uses the Nvidia Graphics card and that all the antialiasing options are on. Does anyone have experience with this and possibly a solution?

I should note, rather importantly, that in the “Nvidia GPU activity” tray icon, my instances of Rhino are registering as “Rhinoceros 5 (64 bit) in Safe Mode.” Not sure why it’s booting in safe mode by itself and I can’t start it in normal mode, but I’ve read that rhino viewport antialiasing doesn’t work when in safe mode.

I am running windows 7 and have the most recent Nvidia drivers.

really want to make this Quadro card worthwhile!

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Hmm - does the card show up as expected on the OpenGL page in Rhino’s Options?

-Pascal

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It does.

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I see - I don’t think Rhino will show you any info about the card on the OpenGL page if you start it in Safe Mode (here, anyway), so that is probably not true… I guess I’d:

  1. Install the latest SR of Rhino, from here: http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5.0/sr
  2. Update/reinstall the video drivers…

-Pascal

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I updated to SR9 and all is fixed. Go figure.

It’s beautiful!

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Actually, just looked and the program is no longer using the Quadro card.

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Disregard that, it is now working.

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Phew.

-Pascal