[ros-users] RViz/OGRE3D and PCL hardware requirements/recommendations

[Radu Bogdan Rusu]

Ibrahim,

Just out of curiosity: are the PCL visualization accelerated on your machine? Can you render point clouds fast enough? 
(I'll add a FPS text to the visualizer later today).

Cheers,
Radu.
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http://pointclouds.org

On 01/15/2011 07:14 PM, Ibrahim Awwal wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a problem running Rviz on my computer, which is an Intel Core
> i5 2.4Ghz with an on-die GPU (integrated, but decent spec considering
> it's made by Intel). According to google results this is at least
> comparable to older nVidia graphics cards, but I can barely run Rviz and
> it's very laggy on Ubuntu 10.10 with everything up to date. I also am
> trying to work with the Kinect and openNI but the visualizations that
> use Rviz are just too slow, although the regular libfreenect examples
> (eg. freenect-glpclview) work perfectly fine at full framerate. It seems
> like OGRE3D doesn't like intel GPUs unfortunately, but I've noticed that
> some people are doing things with Atom boards, so I'm wondering whether
> anyone else is able to run Rviz on Intel GPUs.
>
> I'm considering getting a cheap Intel Atom dual-core + nVidia ION box
> for developing if it's unlikely for Rviz to work at all on Intel GPUs.
> Would this be good enough for basic development? Ideally I could try to
> run any CPU intensive nodes on my Core i5 and just do the visualization
> on the ION box. Does anyone have experience with Atom+ION computers and
> Rviz? I really need a development computer so that I don't need to go
> into the lab to do anything useful. Thanks!
>
> (Addendum: Rviz also doesn't like new Radeon graphics cards either,
> which is unfortunate because I do have a desktop with a high end Radeon
> card. So in general, am I stuck with nVidia for doing anything with
> Rviz, or is anyone having success with non-nVidia cards?)
>