[GRASSLIST:519] Re: nviz with transparency is horrible slow

[Wolfgang]

If I did the installation correctly, this X server doesn't improve the 
situation. But the question is also if nviz is programmed to support OpenGL?

Wolfgang

Glynn Clements schrieb:
> Wolfgang wrote:
> 
>> is it usual that nviz gets quite slow when transparency is used? (I'm 
>> running grass 6.1cvs on cygwin)
> 
> I would expect translucency to have a speed penalty.
> 
> Cygwin provides an "experimental" version of the X server which
> includes hardware acceleration for OpenGL. You might see if that
> helps.
>