I can only see color when I show clouds/snow in the basic visualisation (option S). The other modes (temp, precip, pressure) only show country outlines on a white globe.I saw another thread on this topic, which was apparently solved by updating display drivers to an OpenGL compatible release, but I do not think that is my problem.
My display adapter is a 32MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra. The driver version is 5.13.1.3217.

It has nothing to do with starting up, it is like this all day.
I seem to be running BOINC 4.05 Beta.

that seems to happen sometimes when the model is writing shared memory and I skip reading the array, usually the next timestep will come up and "refresh" the display? Or click P and then T to switch views and refresh

> that seems to happen sometimes when the model is writing shared memory and I
> skip reading the array, usually the next timestep will come up and "refresh"
> the display? Or click P and then T to switch views and refresh
>
>

I have never ever seen color on P, T or R. I can click back and forth all I want, get color every time in S, never in P,T,R. Timesteps come and go, still no color.
(When I say white globe, I should say a shiny white globe, just to be precise. The center of the part directly facing me is a brighter white than the rest. Continent/political outlines show up fine.)

that's different than what I was thinking of. so you only get cloud views (S/U) not the field views (P/T/R). It could be something about the video card that just doesn't like our graphics I guess?

> that's different than what I was thinking of. so you only get cloud views
> (S/U) not the field views (P/T/R). It could be something about the video card
> that just doesn't like our graphics I guess?
>
>
Exactly.

Perhaps; that would be sad for me. The video card is nothing special, 32MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra, but who knows. I may try installing on my laptop at home, see what happens there.

Thanks.

thats better than my graphics card and mine's fine (mines a 32mb gforce2)

> ...Perhaps; that would be sad for me.
> The video card is nothing special, 32MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra, but who knows...

ATI Rage 128 should display the graphics okay - all five of mine work okay. It is a fairly old chip, originally produced at about the same time as 3dfx's Voodoo3 3000 (long before the GeForce2 BTW) so the display uses quite a lot of CPU, but it <i>does</i> at least work.

<a href="http://www.nmvs.dsl.pipex.com/"><img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=6&amp;team=off&amp;trans=off"></a>

So we think it's not the card, no idea on the driver.

I also tried it on my laptop at home,(I don't remember what the graphics card is) looks great in all modes.

What is the difference between S and other modes, I wonder?




&gt; &gt; ...Perhaps; that would be sad for me.
&gt; &gt; The video card is nothing special, 32MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra, but who
&gt; knows...
&gt;
&gt; ATI Rage 128 should display the graphics okay - all five of mine work okay. It
&gt; is a fairly old chip, originally produced at about the same time as 3dfx's
&gt; Voodoo3 3000 (long before the GeForce2 BTW) so the display uses quite a lot of
&gt; CPU, but it <i>does</i> at least work.
&gt;
&gt; <a href="http://www.nmvs.dsl.pipex.com/"><img> src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=6&amp;team=off&amp;trans=off"&gt;</a>
&gt;