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<p>Notes:
    	<ul class="ul"><li class="li">You must restart the application for changes to hardware settings to take effect.</li>
<li class="li">Not all graphics cards support all hardware-related settings.</li>
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For additional hardware settings, see 
<a class="xref" href="cps-c-cu-ApplicationPreferences-AdvancedSettings.htm#cps-c-cu-ApplicationPreferences-AdvancedSettings" title="The Advanced Settings page lets you control advanced features and resolve issues.">Advanced Settings</a>.
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<th class="entry" valign="top" id="d17492e36">Description
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<tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable 3D OpenGL hardware acceleration</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Enables graphics card acceleration. Clear this option if you experience serious graphics rendering problems. 
<p>Notes:
    	<ul class="ul"><li class="li">Disabling this option might significantly degrade  graphics performance.</li>
<li class="li">If you experience graphical display issues, press 
<span class="ph uicontrol">R</span> while in the viewport to reset the OpenGL engine.</li>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" id="HardwareSupportAdvanced" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 ">

<span class="ph uicontrol">Advanced</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Uses OpenGL frame buffer object (FBO) and other extensions to provide off-screen rendering. Enabling this setting:
<ul class="ul"><li class="li">Is required for some capabilities such as cutting plane per-actor color capping, style preview-image generation, and high-quality rendering effects such as ambient occlusion.</li>
<li class="li">Improves Technical Illustration workshop results when using color regions and shadows.</li>
<li class="li">Improves Simplification - Occlusion results.</li>
<li class="li">Might avoid screen refresh problems associated with other rendering techniques, such as p-buffers and auxiliary buffers.</li>
<li class="li">Might reduce bitmap output problems, such as gray or black images.</li>
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<p>Note:
    	 This option is the same as 

<span class="ph uicontrol">HardwareSupport.Advanced</span> on the
<span class="keyword wintitle">Advanced Settings</span>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Standard</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Disables FBO and other advanced extensions. You can selectively enable or disable rendering techniques, such as use of p-buffers and auxiliary buffers.
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable p-buffer</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Enables off-screen rendering with OpenGL using pixel buffers. Select this option to resolve problems with screen captures, printing, saved images, and other graphics operations. Rendering might also be hardware accelerated.</td>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Static p-buffer</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">(Available when 
<span class="ph uicontrol">Enable p-buffer</span> is selected.) Uses static pixel buffers.
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable direct swapping to refresh</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Enables direct swapping to refresh. Clear this option if you have screen display problems such as highlighting problems.</td>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable aux. buffers</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Enables auxiliary buffers. Clear this option if the previous options do not solve your graphics problems.</td>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable OpenGL display lists</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">Enables OpenGL display lists. A display list is a series of graphics commands that define an output image. Clear this option if you have problems such as invisible text.</td>
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<tr class="row"><td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e34 "><span class="ph uicontrol">Enable text reset</span></td>
<td class="entry" valign="top" headers="d17492e36 ">(Available when 
<span class="ph uicontrol">Enable OpenGL display lists</span> is selected.) Resets text display. Select this option if you have problems displaying text.</td>
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