Disable hardware GPU acceleration about openscad HOT 6 OPEN

I have never heard of GPU drivers being this bad on Windows... I usually encounter people complaining about the drivers on Linux, and one can change the mesa backend to llvmpipe on linux easily. Not sure about that for windows.

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The challenge is that, to disable GPU usage, we need to find a CPU driver for OpenGL. The one which ships with Windows is ancient and no usable, since Microsoft pretty much ditched OpenGL. It might be possible to install a CPU driver manually. If you're able to do that, we might be able to offer driver selection in OpenSCAD. Do you know how other apps do this?

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No, never heard of this. I only know that I can select a software renderer in Affinity apps (called "WARP") and can disable hardware rendering in many other apps simply by selecting a checkbox or passing a commandline argument. Including all web browsers. No manual installations or drivers needed. .NET WPF also allows this by an option, it's based on DirectX so I'd have thought that it's a standard feature. But I know nothing about OpenGL.

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I believe that it is possible to use https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win to redirect opengl rendering to a software renderer (this can be done at application launch overriding the system opengl bindings).
I am currently using AMD gpu drivers on windows with openscad without issue.

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@Scopeuk May I ask which GPU model you're using? Mine is the integrated Ryzen 7700 CPU/GPU.

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I am running a vega56

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