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

[Radu Bogdan Rusu]

No I meant more along the lines of... can you try to load a PCD file using rosrun pcl_visualization pcd_viewer to see if 
it feels accelerated/fast?


Cheers,
Radu.
--
http://pointclouds.org

On 01/15/2011 07:33 PM, Ibrahim Awwal wrote:
> Well currently, for some reason when I even try to run the Rviz configuration from
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect/Tutorials/Getting%20Started it doesn't even get started at all, which is really weird. It
> just sort of hangs looking like this: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ibrahima/random/Screenshot-RViz.png
>
> The last time I ran it it eventually filled in the topics for the Point Cloud2 and Camera, but I still could not
> interact with it at all. So maybe the issue is with something else? I installed the kinect package via the instructions
> on http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect .
>
> Previously with something else (trying to visualize a PR2) I was getting around 5 frames per second or less I believe,
> which was pretty annoying to work with.
>
> -Ibrahim Awwal
>
>
> On 1/15/2011 7:17 PM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
>> 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.
>> --
>> 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?)
>>>