Text cut in half in Rhino 6

[stevebaer]

This is exactly the issue that @jeff mentions above at

Text cut in half in Rhino 6

Well there’s the answer… There is no driver installed on your system… Or least there is no OpenGL ICD installed on your system. Microsoft Windows out of the box doesn’t support hardware accelerated OpenGL (which I won’t go into why here). However, I would think that after a few system updates, the proper driver would have been installed. What is your laptop make and model? Do you know what video card/GPU is on the laptop? Go into the DeviceManager (right-click the Windows logo in the lower …

Please follow his instructions and post the results here.

[dana1 (Dana)]

Here is my Device Manager view:

Thanks for the help.

[stevebaer]

Ah… VMWare; I didn’t pick up on that at first. We don’t officially support VMWare though we still try our best to make Rhino work on this platform.

That said, we really only put effort into getting Rhino to run on the latest version of VMWare Fusion as they have made improvements in how they deal with OpenGL starting in version 10. I would recommend at least using Fusion version 10 if you aren’t already.