Hello,
we have issues with new Dell Latitude 5520 notebooks which have an integrated "Intel Iris Xe Graphics" graphics card.
The problem is the the rendering of the PdfViewer isn't working properly which means that it doesn't refresh its content when you scroll, zoom in/out or change the page via code behind. You can see that something is happening as the borders of pages are shown highlighted in blue/dark grey but the main content stays the same.
The only way I can solve the issue on these notebooks is to deactivate hardware accelerated rendering and force software rendering
using e.g. the following line of code in Application_Startup or by doing it only for the window which uses the PDFium control.
System.Windows.Media.RenderOptions.ProcessRenderMode = System.Windows.Interop.RenderMode.SoftwareOnly;
We found a link to an error report on Intels forum as it has to do with Intels Iris Xe graphics card and not only PDFium is affected by the problem.
Iris Xe and AWS Workspaces - Page 2 - Intel Community I have a look at this entry from time to time to see if there is something new from Intel and according to a reply of RonaldM_Intel they’ll hopefully have a driver ready at around June 9th but he notes that this is a target date and may shift depending on additional test results…
Another possibility to fix the issue now would be to set System.Windows.Media.RenderOptions.ProcessRenderMode to System.Windows.Interop.RenderMode.SoftwareOnly but then the whole WPF rendering of the application is done in software.
I think you can also do it on a per window base by getting the WPF windows HwndSource, of that the HwndTarget and the HwndTarget has a RenderMode property which can be set to SoftwareOnly to only render that specific window in software..
You can also disable hardware rendering for all WPF applications in Windows without any modification on your applications code by setting the following registry entries value to 1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration
In case DisableHWAcceleration is missing in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics you must create the value, it’s of type DWORD.
For more information on this see
Graphics Rendering Registry Settings - WPF .NET Framework | Microsoft DocsUpdate: Intel finally released an official production driver which fixes the problem.
The version of the driver is 30.0.100.9684 so installing at least this driver version fixes the problem if you don't want to disable hardware acceleration.
It can be downloaded via the following link:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/30579/Intel-Grafik-Windows-DCH-TreiberEdited by user Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:02:23 AM(UTC)
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