Does Labview take advantage of graphics accelerators?

We have an application which is updating LOTS of indicators, boolean and numeric, several times a second while handling a lot of serial communication and data parsing. We have already seen that on a relatively high spec laptop, it is causing very high load and overheating of the laptop at times. Yes, there are lots of optimizations yet to take advantage of, and have a developer working on it now, but in general, if one has front panels w/ lots of displayed data that is refreshed a lot, or lots of graphs, would a graphics accelerator card take load off the processor, allowing the application to run more efficiently?

altenbach a écrit:
Only update indicators (especially graphs) if their value actually changes. (Place their terminal inside a case structure).
Don't set your indicators to "synchronous display".
Hum... I thought that indicators where only updated if their value was changed ... even when set to synchronous display. At least this bis what is suggested by the attached vi...
Message Edité par chilly charly le 09-05-2006 06:14 PM
Chilly Charly (aka CC)
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