Where can I find old Windows versions of CloudCompare?

[mapdeep]

Hello,

I am looking for older versions of CloudCompare for (.exe files). I found a site that provides this for Mac ( http://asmaloney.com/software/) , but I cannot find an equivalent for Windows.

The reason I'm looking for an older version is that the current version 2.6 is buggy for me: it does not show any point clouds in 3D (I can only see them, sometimes, when in plane view).

[daniel]

You can look a the release notes (http://www.cloudcompare.org/release/notes/). There's links for each version.

But I'd be very interested to have more information about your issue:

• your graphic card
• your OS and architecture (32/64 bits)
• does the "Try to load clouds on the GPU" option is checked in the display option?

[mapdeep]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the quick reply.

checking "Try to load clouds on the GPU" indeed does the trick!
In case it is still interesting for you to know: I am on Windows 64 and my graphics card is AMD Radeon HD 7570M

[daniel]

Ah! That explains everything: the "Try to load clouds on the GPU" option shouldn't be enabled on AMD cards...

[mapdeep]

Hi Daniel,

You mean one should not expect it to be enabled on AMD but one should enabled it manually? (I am wondering if will I have any issues come up because I have enabled it?)

[daniel]

I meant that it should be disabled by default on AMD cards.

Do you mean that enabling it solved your issue?!

[mapdeep]

yes enabling this option did solve the issue!
(Although now I am confused - it sounds like this should not have worked??)

[daniel]

Yes I was expecting the opposite ;). "Traditionally", this option only causes issues with AMD cards (typically the kind of things you observed in fact ;). So it is deactivated by default.

But in your case it's seems to be the opposite! Well, you're lucky, because with this option enabled, the display can become much faster. I guess it's just (another) ultra weird behavior from AMD drivers...