Hardware acceleration (all platforms)

With some graphics devices Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer may fail when hardware acceleration is turned on. It is possible to turn off hardware acceleration if completely necessary, although it is not recommended. Disabling hardware acceleration will severely degrade graphics performance in Abaqus/CAE and Abaqus/Viewer. You can disable hardware acceleration using one of the following methods:

Linux platforms

Start Abaqus/CAE or Abaqus/Viewer using the -mesa option:

abaqus cae -mesa
abaqus viewer -mesa
Windows platforms

There are two ways to disable hardware acceleration on Windows platforms:

  • Add the parameter abaqus_no_hardware_acceleration=ON to the Abaqus environment file; or

  • Create a system environment variable using the following command: 

    set Abaqus_NO_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION=1