After upgrading my video card to an ATI/AMD HD5770 I can no longer use the OpenGL preview in Poser, I have to use SreeD. With OpenGL I can't pick/highlight  any body parts of the model, for example:

With OpenGL when I grab V4's arm and move it I can't see it move, but if I switch to SreeD I can see where it moved to.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix the problem?

ps, and as far as DAZ Studio goes I can't do anything in it either, the preview pain is white and can't be changed.

Some info on the new card:

OpenGL 3.2 support

Shader Model 5.0

DirectX® 11 support

1Gb video RAM

I'm using the most current Catalyst drivers 11.5b

Thanks :)

My personal opinion (and what I do): Stick with SreeD.  It's slightly slower than OpenGL, in all relativity.  (as in, yes, it can be clocked as significantly slower, but when all is said and done, it's still fast enough to fold into your workflow).

IIRC, ATI drivers and OpenGL don't get along all that well without heavy tweaking and know-how.  I really hope someone who knows comes along to help you out, because I kind of seem defeatist, LOL.

Try disabling hardware acceleration for the video card and see if that makes a difference.

I dimly remember a setting in a file to do with picking.  You might search the forums for opengl and picking , ot would have been a few years ago though.

Open a problem with Smith micro, I wonder if opengl 3 is completely compatible with 2.

Quote - ....I wonder if opengl 3 is completely compatible with 2.

OpenGL 3 doesn't appear to cause any problem with my usage of Poser.

But, I would have to qualify that by saying on Nvidia card, I have the GTX 260 which is OpenGL 3.3 capable.

I have an ATI HD 5700 and no such problems. Unfortunately, I can't help you because everything worked as expected "out of the box", and I never had to tweak my settings. But I doubt that it's an ATI/OpenGL compatibility problem.

had similar issues with OGL on my rig ( asus board, AMD Athlon2 quadcore, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit).

original card was a HD 4850, knowing that ATI cards sometimes have issues with OGL, i purchased a GeForce GT 430 card. but the issue still persisted.

found that by turning Aero ON and hardware acceleration OFF, the issues were 99% cured.

The problem probably are the video drivers, try to update with the latest version and with older versions too until it works.

Not always the latest version in the best. Recently I have updated my video drivers and guess what happened ? The Windows search freeze in any search for files !!!! What has to do video functions with searching *.txt files ??? I returned to the 2010's drivers version and all is working fine. Maybe next year I shall try again the 2012's version and see what happens.

I do not want to start a fight. It's just that in my limited experience AMD is better for games and nVidia is better for 3D graphics including 3DGL.

I now have an AMD Radion 5850 HD. I used to have nVidia cards. The 5850 blows the doors of that old 8800GTX in games, but I miss it when I use Vue or Poser.

Does an OpenGL card need an OpenGL motherboard?

I believe that there is some issue with ATI cards and OpenGL.  I ended up removing a pair of ATI Radeon 4870x2 cards because it killed Poser when I tried to import some OBJs.  After comparing notes with another user, I wonder if it may have been the Catalyst utility which was the culprit.    Moriador, do you have Catalyst on your machine?

Quote - I have an ATI HD 5700 and no such problems. Unfortunately, I can't help you because everything worked as expected "out of the box", and I never had to tweak my settings. But I doubt that it's an ATI/OpenGL compatibility problem.

What driver version are you using for your card? Mabey I can try the one you're using and see if it makes a difference.

...and as far as working out of the box, my ATI/AMD Sapphire HD 5770 Flex works perfectly in everything except any form of Poser [Poser Pro, Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 64bit, yes I have all 3 installed] and DAZ|Studio.

OpenGL is OpenGL, it shouldn't matter what video card is used.

My previous card, the ATI X1900XT worked just fine using the last available legacy drivers. I only upgraded because of a couple of DirectX 11 games that I bought.

Quote - I believe that there is some issue with ATI cards and OpenGL.  I ended up removing a pair of ATI Radeon 4870x2 cards because it killed Poser when I tried to import some OBJs.  After comparing notes with another user, I wonder if it may have been the Catalyst utility which was the culprit.    Moriador, do you have Catalyst on your machine?

I have the CCC on my machine, if that's what you mean.

Quote - > Quote - I have an ATI HD 5700 and no such problems. Unfortunately, I can't help you because everything worked as expected "out of the box", and I never had to tweak my settings. But I doubt that it's an ATI/OpenGL compatibility problem.

What driver version are you using for your card? Mabey I can try the one you're using and see if it makes a difference.

...and as far as working out of the box, my ATI/AMD Sapphire HD 5770 Flex works perfectly in everything except any form of Poser [Poser Pro, Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 64bit, yes I have all 3 installed] and DAZ|Studio.

OpenGL is OpenGL, it shouldn't matter what video card is used.

My previous card, the ATI X1900XT worked just fine using the last available legacy drivers. I only upgraded because of a couple of DirectX 11 games that I bought.

I have the latest drivers. 8.850.0.0

There was a recent optional win7 update for ATI 5700 series drivers that I put off installing until I was ready to test, in case I needed to restore afterwards. But there were no problems.

Maybe the Sapphire Flex sucks for OpenGL and whatever I have doesn't. (Apparently, without opening the case, I can't tell exactly what I have.) But it just seems so unlikely to me.

Then again, ATI horror stories abound on the 'net. It surprises me that anyone gets these cards to work for anything.

I have an older AMD-ATI chip, HD3200. All was working without any problem with only one exception, the Ctalyst Control Center itself. In some points of the CCC it freeze. As I never use the CCC it was not too much problem. Last year I updated Catalyst and this problem was fixed with the new version, so I let this package and didn't upgraded it anymore. If all is working for what do I need a new driver ?

The problem was that the 2010 version has no OpenCL driver for mine GPU (don't confuse with OpenGL), so some months ago I found that the new Catalyst 2011 version had an OpenCL driver.

I downloaded and installed the new Catalyst, all was working with the exception of the Windows search, any time I wanted to search for a file the search freeze !!! A video package screwwed Windows in functions that have nothing to do with video.

I restored all the video installation to the 2010 version and only installed the OpenCL driver and left the 2010 video and Catalyst.

In 2012 I shall try again to see if they solved the problems and had no introduced a new problem, meantime the 2010 installation is fine and working.

I found the problem and now OpenGL works perfectly, and guess what it was??...

.....It was Stardocks WindowBlinds.

The program must put some kind of transparent overlay on the desktop which was causing the problem. I got the idea when I noticed that every time I opened Poser there was a split second screen flicker so I unloaded WindowBlinds and ended the wbvista.exe process, restarted and poof the problem was gone. So now Windowblinds is uninstalled untill I can get a hold of support and see if there's some sort of workaround/patch.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions guys, they're much appreciated :)

You might want to run a deep virus scan, as well as defrag and possibly a anti-malware scan.