Options - Graphics
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This menu allows you to control attributes for the graphics viewers.

Graphics Viewer

Controls aspects of how the graphics viewer is to be used to display any graphical output.

Disable Hardware Acceleration
To display its graphical output, GenStat uses the OpenGL system. Many graphics cards provide on-board support for OpenGL, accessed via proprietary device drivers, in order to obtain the best performance. GenStat will try to use any hardware support that is available, but on some occasions problems may arise because of incompatibilities in the device driver. These can usually be corrected by downloading an updated driver (from the graphics card manufacturer's website). Alternatively, you can disable hardware acceleration, which should result in GenStat selecting a screen mode that uses software OpenGL support.

Symptoms arising from hardware incompatibilities can vary a great deal, from simple problems with colours appearing or disappearing, to unexplained crashes.

Use old style Graphics viewer (Version 4.1)
If you have the old-style Graphics Viewer (Version 4.1) installed then this check box will be visible. When selected any graphical output will be displayed using the old style graphics viewer.

Graphics Wizard

Allows you to select whether the graphics wizard menu should close when you click on the Finish button.

Action Buttons

OKSave the options and close the dialog.
CancelClose the dialog without making any changes.

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