Grey band in O-charts

[Corsair63]

1. OS type & version
Windows 11 ARM64 ver. 21H2 22000.740

2. Computer Equipment: Manfacturer & Model
Microsoft Surface Pro X
Processor Microsoft SQ1 @ 3.0 GHz 3.00 GHz
RAM 16,0 GB (15,5 GB usable)

3. Graphics card: Manufacturer and Model
Microsoft SQ1 Adreno 685 GPU

4. Opencpn version and Plugin version: Must be from the official download page (unless you are testing)
OpenCPN 5.6.2
o-charts 1.0.27.0

5. Description: What was done leading up to the problem. What occurred and what you think the problem is.
there is a grey band not showing the chart colours in the lower part of the screen.
the option of enable OpenGL nearly freeze the Surface but shows the complete charts and appropriate colours, but unable to work with it until unable again the OpenGL.

6. Opencpn.log and Opencpn.ini or Opencpn.conf files attached to a post in thread as .txt, .doc or .pdf
If the file is too big you made cut log file sizes down to the last 2 or 3 starts of Opencpn.
Attached screen-shot and both log & ini as zip file, remove .doc extension.

[bdbcat]

Corsair...
Looked at your logfile.
It appears that you have set Options->Display->OpenGL->Options->"Software OpenGL".


Please try with this option (Software OpenGL) OFF.


Thanks
Dave

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Corsair...
Looked at your logfile.
It appears that you have set Options->Display->OpenGL->Options->"Software OpenGL".


Please try with this option (Software OpenGL) OFF.


Thanks
Dave

Already done, Always working with OpenGL OFF, in the log should be the moments I'm trying to find the source of the problem, otherwise with OpenGL ON I cannot work with OpenCPN, it takes ages to do any task on it.

I'll send another fresh log file in the course of this morning.

[Corsair63]

Hi all,

fresh log file attached, remove .pdf of its extension.

thanks,

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Corsair...
Looked at your logfile.
It appears that you have set Options->Display->OpenGL->Options->"Software OpenGL".


Please try with this option (Software OpenGL) OFF.


Thanks
Dave

As far as I see I have deactivated in the settings and also in the .ini file is 0 (attached)

[bdbcat]

Corsair
I mean OpenGL ON, but "Software OpenGL" OFF.
Please try. Then stop OCPN, delete the logfiles, and start OCPN again. Stop OCPN immediately, and post the much shorter logfile.




Thanks
Dave

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Corsair
I mean OpenGL ON, but "Software OpenGL" OFF.
Please try. Then stop OCPN, delete the logfiles, and start OCPN again. Stop OCPN immediately, and post the much shorter logfile.

Hi Dave,

how?

OpenGL ON, but "Software OpenGL" OFF.

I've already exchanges the program to English for better understanding.

[Corsair63]

I guess should be this way:

in .ini file

OpenGL=1
SoftwareGL=0

included .ini and short .log also two screenshots.

the chart could be seen complete, but there are some borders and text that are not shown correctly.

[bdbcat]

Corsair...


Getting closer...
From the log, I see that this device uses a very ancient and slow software emulation of OpenGL.

15:27:04.809 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1246 OpenGL-> Renderer String: GDI Generic
15:27:04.809 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1255 OpenGL-> Version reported:  1.1.0

Is it possible to find an updated OpenGL driver for this box?


Dave

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Corsair...


Getting closer...
From the log, I see that this device uses a very ancient and slow software emulation of OpenGL.

15:27:04.809 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1246 OpenGL-> Renderer String: GDI Generic
15:27:04.809 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1255 OpenGL-> Version reported:  1.1.0

Is it possible to find an updated OpenGL driver for this box?


Dave

Hi bdbcat,

the tablet is updated to latest drivers either software.
everything related to windows ARM64 it's really very complicated, because drivers must be signed and specifically compiled for ARM64.

at this time I don't know how to find newer drivers, because everything is deployed by Microsoft and I got some days ago a system update (maybe BIOS)

[bdbcat]

Corsair...
A Google search "Microsoft Surface Pro X OpenGL driver" will give several hours of reading....
Especially interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceGami...ace_pro_x_now/


Dave

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Corsair...
A Google search "Microsoft Surface Pro X OpenGL driver" will give several hours of reading....
Especially interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceGami...ace_pro_x_now/


Dave

Hi Dave,

downloaded and installed file of the link in the Microsoft Store, now it seems that everything is working fine:

17:14:02.498 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1246 OpenGL-> Renderer String: D3D12 (Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) 680 GPU)
17:14:02.498 MESSAGE glChartCanvas.cpp:1255 OpenGL-> Version reported: 4.1 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.0-devel (git-98e63d66e2)

attached screenshot, .ini and .log files for this operation only.

now I can see correctly the charts.

is it normal to see the borders of the scale charts so thick? (highlighted in screenshot)
and
also with OpenGL activated I can work and move inside the program.

I have always said it,

there is no better thing than asking someone who knows

Carmelo (Corsair)

[molly21]

Hi,


I reopen this threat, because I have also problems with "grey zones".


I have just decieded to use OpenCPN after paylaing around with it for a while. After playing only with the software I decided to buy one O-Chart.
Until here everything was fine. Today I bought some more O-Charts an installed them.
After this I have some of this grey zones in the charts. They are not on screen when I zoom in max. But come back when zooming out. Ther is no good overview fo planning longer passages.
Also now OpenCPN has crashed a few times.


I am using a WIN10 machine.


thanks
molly

[Corsair63]

Molly,

it's strange the areas that you've greyed, it seems to be areas of charts not loaded.

have you defined the correct path for charts?
or have you available those set of charts?

it's only a guess.

[Hakan]

Molly..
Try:
Set vector chart zoom scale weighting to -1 for a test.
Be sure to have latest o-chart plugin.
In options->Charts->Chart files check and apply "Force full database rebuild"