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How to de-activate the OpenGL Graphic Library in Creo Elements/Direct Drafting and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

Modified: 29-May-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 19.00 to 20.7
  • Creo Elements/Direct Drafting 19.00 to 20.7

Description

  • How to de-activate the OpenGL Graphic Library in Creo Elements/Direct Drafting and  Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
  • How to turn OpenGL off
  • How to configure Graphics settings to work like previous versions
  • Which versions of OpenGL are supported
  • Poor graphics performance in the Fluent UIWindows UI and Mixed UI for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting. The following graphic cards are affected:
    • NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
    • NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
    • AMD FirePro V4900
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
  • In Creo Elements/Direct Modeling/Annotation views overlap each other because of invisible graphic
  • Text of copilot feedback is not displayed when copilot is active
  • When zooming in and out, texts and dimensions disappear
  • When zooming in and out, multiple unknown edges are shown until the window is redrawn
  • When starting Drafting, the screen often gets unresponsive and cannot move. Is there a solution?
    •  Operating system: Win 10-20H2 Memory: 32G Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro T1000
  • When updating a view in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Annotation, it taks long time.
  • When using Creo Elemetns/Direct Drafting 20.0 M020, there is a problem with the display lines, which cannot be displayed in full.
  • Mouse lagging and Crosshairs trailing cursor
  • Mouse pointer is blinking during moving a mouse cursor in viewport.
  • While moving a mouse cursor quickly, the mouse pointer disappears.
  • Some text and dimensions are not shown on the viewport although they exists actually
  • When zooming in and out, texts and dimensions disappear in Creo Elements/Direct Drafting 20.7 (Graphics: Intel Iris Xe Graphics)
  • Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Annotation does not launch with the error: ERROR during display initialization
  • After using Drafting to open the DXF format drawing, many redundant lines are displayed on the screen
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