Attempting to RUN ProEng WildFire on SGI and display across the network

Jan 16, 2004 1 Replies

In order to get pass the 2GByte Virtual Memory Limit of a 32 bits Windows XP system, we Installed ProEng Wildfire on a SGI Origin hoping to use a Windows XP system with Exceed and Exceed 3D as a front End Terminal.



Upon Starting ProEng we get a message to the effect that OPENGL is not available and that X-Window will be used instead. We also tried a Linux and genuine SGI Workstation as the remote workstation with the same result.



Is OPENGL across the network supported by ProEng ?


If you are using a remote X Display on a PC. The PC is the graphics server and the SGI is the graphics client. IIRC this means that the X implementation on your Windows or Linux system has to be able to accept OpenGL calls. If it doesn't the SGI can't use OpenGL.

Best regards,

John Bijnens

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