Bug 104759 - Cell content not displaying in large Calc files after driver update (NVIDIA GeForce 310M driver)
Summary: Cell content not displaying in large Calc files after driver update (NVIDIA G...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2016-12-18 19:24 UTC by David Edwards
Modified: 2017-10-31 11:23 UTC (History)
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Description David Edwards 2016-12-18 19:24:17 UTC
Description:
Following an NVIDIA GeForce 310M driver driver update, large Calc files appeared at first glance to be empty. None of the cells showed any content. If one selected the cell it showed at the top but still not in the cell. Changes of font, zoom, etc. made no difference. I rolled back to the previous driver (9.18.13.4192), opened one of the large files (>20 000 rows) and all was back to normal. So there is an easy solution, and I do not know if the incompatibility would still exist with a later version of LibreOffice: I preferred to change only one thing at a time to be sure of identifying the source of the problem.

Actual Results:  
update the video driver and you will presumably have the same problem

Expected Results:
N/A


Reproducible: Didn't try

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Builds ID: LibreOffice 5.2.2.2


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36 OPR/41.0.2353.69
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-12-19 16:45:55 UTC
Is this enabled or disabled: Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View - Use OpenGL for all rendering?

If it was enabled, please copy and paste here to a comment the contents of your C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\cache\opengl_device.log

Set to NEEDINFO.
Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the information.
Comment 2 David Edwards 2016-12-20 22:00:45 UTC
"Use OpenGL for all rendering? (after restart)" was not selected/enabled.  Should it be? I looked up OpenGL and all I found was that it caused problems sometimes, so that did not encourage me to try it!
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2016-12-20 22:22:45 UTC
I've only heard of graphics driver problems related to OpenGL-rendered UI, that's why I asked.
Comment 4 David Edwards 2016-12-20 22:36:53 UTC
Ah! OK. So, no, that's not the problem here.
 Who knows if the problem is driver side or LibreOffice side anyway. I have also raised the issue there.
Comment 5 Aron Budea 2016-12-25 02:51:56 UTC
It might also be worth to give it a try with v5.2.4 released just a few days ago, and possibly with 5.3.0.1 RC. Instructions on installing different versions in parallel is here (SI-GUI is a neat tool for that):
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Windows
Comment 6 Carlos 2017-04-20 16:50:03 UTC
(In reply to David Edwards from comment #4)
> Ah! OK. So, no, that's not the problem here.
>  Who knows if the problem is driver side or LibreOffice side anyway. I have
> also raised the issue there.

David, did you try  version 5.3.2 (or 5.2.4)?
Comment 7 Carlos 2017-04-20 16:53:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 David Edwards 2017-04-20 19:26:04 UTC
Hi,

apologies - work took over and I forgot about this. At the moment I have 5.2.5.1 which is working fine but I have not tried re-updating the driver. I will try to find time to do this over the next couple of days - after which I once again change country, start a new activity, etc. etc. and won't have a moment.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2017-10-30 10:54:14 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 David Edwards 2017-10-30 12:22:14 UTC
Apologies - work got in the way and then I forgot about this. I had a different problem with an update of Libre Office (incredibly slow, jumpy scrolling of large calc files) and so had to revert back to an earlier version to restore normal functioning - currently running 5.2.7.2 with no problems and have not updated the NVIDIA driver again to check if the empty cell problem recurs. I will try to find the time to do this in the coming days, but I'm not sure how relevant the results will be given the version of LO I'm using
Comment 11 Buovjaga 2017-10-30 19:05:34 UTC
You can install a development build alongside your stable one: https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Win-x86_64@42/current/
Comment 12 David Edwards 2017-10-30 20:39:36 UTC
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Comment 13 David Edwards 2017-10-30 20:42:26 UTC
I have now updated the NVIDIA driver again and this time, still with 5.2.7.2 there is no problem with empty cells. So I think, as this is later than the version I had a problem with (5.2.2.2) we can consider the problem resolved.
Comment 14 Buovjaga 2017-10-31 11:23:22 UTC
(In reply to David Edwards from comment #13)
> I have now updated the NVIDIA driver again and this time, still with 5.2.7.2
> there is no problem with empty cells. So I think, as this is later than the
> version I had a problem with (5.2.2.2) we can consider the problem resolved.

Ah, indeed. Great to hear. Let's close.