Is there a notification when FlexSim falls back to using a generic OpenGL ?

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Clair A asked Jan 30 2017 at 11:23 AM Clair A commented Feb 06 2017 at 10:35 AM

Is there a notification when FlexSim falls back to using a generic OpenGL ?

Hi,

About the graphics settings in the Global Preferences, the User Manual says:

"If no graphics acceleration is available with your system configuration, FlexSim will automatically fall back to using a generic software OpenGL implementation and ignore the settings defined here."

When FlexSim automatically falls back to using this generic implementation, does the user get a message to inform him that his computer is not meeting FlexSim's system requirements and therefore the graphics will be reduced ?

Software Version:

FlexSim 17.0.0

opengl

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-30T14:19:44Z

Sam Stubbs answered Jan 30 2017 at 2:19 PM Clair A commented Feb 06 2017 at 10:35 AM

As far as I'm aware there isn't any pop up warning window or anything. (The devs can correct me if I'm wrong.) But you can always check for yourself. If you go to Help > About FlexSim. The second line under SYSTEM INFORMATION will inform you what Open GL set up it is using.

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Clair A commented · Jan 30 2017 at 2:36 PM

I'm asking this question because if there's no message, someone who has a bad computer will have a slow rendering, no bone animations etc and might think that the capabilities of the software are limited, whereas it's his hardware fault. Please let us know what the developpers think.

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ Clair A commented · Jan 30 2017 at 6:37 PM

This is how it has always worked. It is just documented now.

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Clair A Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Feb 01 2017 at 7:20 PM

I don't think it has always worked this way. In the past a user with a bad hardware had to manually switch to compatbility mode. Now the documentation says that in that case FlexSim will automatically fall back to using a generic software OpenGL implementation. That's why my question is: is there a notification when FlexSim automatically switches to this generic implementation ?

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