OpenGL high Sierra 10.13.3

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OpenGL high Sierra 10.13.3

Hello everyone,

I am experiencing a frustrating experience with LibreOffice on my MacBook Pro early 2015 13". I've never had any problem in running LO on Mac Osx before. I'm using v 6.0 and tried the stable 5.4

There are several glitch and part of the problem (the other of course is in the bugs of their software) is related to the impossibility to utilise OpenGL rendering at its full. Although the Iris 6100 which is in my laptop should support up to 4.1 it is currently stuck on 3.3 (consider that 4.1 has been released something like 7 years ago). I am aware of Apple moving to Metal and again ****

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Posted on Mar 6, 2018 9:10 AM

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VikingOSX

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Mar 6, 2018 11:26 AM in response to daniele190

Had you gone the distance, and purchased the late-2015 15 inch MacBook Pro, then you would have had a switchable, discrete AMD Radeon R9 GPU, and LibreOffice enjoys AMD GPU recognition, and acceleration due to AMD engineers contributing that functionality to the LibreOffice project since 2013.

If Intel has not similarly contributed, or there is some inherent limitation with Iris GPU support for OpenGL — then that may explain why machines with only the default Intel Iris graphics do not take full/any advantage of OpenGL hardware acceleration in LibreOffice.

In LibreOffice v5 and v6, there is a Preferences : View panel. On it will be a selectable box to use hardware acceleration that may be available, or grayed out, based on LibreOffice's detected support of that GPU for the available OpenGL included with the operating system.

You are saddled with the OpenGL version, and features that Apple ships with the operating system.

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Answer 2

Mar 7, 2018 6:18 AM in response to daniele190

I do agree with VickingOSX. I also use LO 6 and there's no difference between OGL on or off. Does that make a difference for you? If not, disable it.

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daniele190 Author

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Mar 7, 2018 6:26 AM in response to majortom1967

Hello, unfortunately on my mbp it makes the difference in the sense that if I turn Gl on it crashes everytime I try to start the program, thus I must leave it off. However, some functionality (particularly in Impress such as 3D transition, are not working). The only concern is why Apple stop supporting OpenGl which is cross-platform and most utilised, since my GpU could handle more than what it actually does.

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daniele190 Author

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Mar 6, 2018 11:25 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for the reply. The fact is that technically my GPU support up to 4.1 version (you can check easily with an opengl viewer) but in fact enables up to 3.2. In preferences I can use opengl (whilst opencl cannot be activated for some reason) but then LO becomes unu

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