Article - CS180415
How to de-activate the OpenGL Graphic Library to avoid various display-related issues in Creo Elements/Direct Drafting and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
Modified: 13-Oct-2026
Applies To
- Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 19.00 to 20.9
- Creo Elements/Direct Drafting 19.00 to 20.9
Description
- How to de-activate the OpenGL Graphic Library to avoid various display-related issues 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 UI, Windows 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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When a specific part is activated, the text display of that part becomes corrupted.
- Lines cannot be drawn in Drafting, nor can the default Creo Colors be converted to CoCreate Colors.
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A drawing created in an older version, when loaded in the latest version, displays some text and dimension annotations inconsistently, certain text and dimension values are not visible, and their visibility may change depending on the zoom level.
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