Spatial Integration Help

About Spatial Integration

Contents

Spatial Integration displays geoscience and spatial data together in 3D: surfaces and imagery, GIS vectors, line and point data, point clouds, drill holes, volumes, geological models and 3D models.

The version you are running is shown in the title bar of the main window.

System Requirements

Spatial Integration draws with Vulkan, so the graphics card and its driver matter most.

Component Minimum Recommended
Operating system 64-bit Windows or Linux
Graphics card A graphics card with a Vulkan 1.2 driver A dedicated NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, or Intel Arc
Graphics memory 2 GB 4 GB. 8 GB or more for 4K displays, or large volumes and point clouds
System memory 8 GB 16 GB or more
Processor 64-bit multi-core processor More cores speed up loading and interpolation

Important

Install the latest driver from your graphics card manufacturer. Drivers installed with the operating system are often out of date or lack Vulkan support.

Warning

Software renderers such as llvmpipe, which virtual machines and remote desktop sessions often fall back to, are very slow.

On a laptop with both integrated and dedicated graphics, Spatial Integration chooses the dedicated graphics card.

Graphics memory use grows with the size of the window. Transparent objects need a buffer that is about 500 MB at 1920x1080 and about 2 GB on a 4K display.

Optional Graphics Features

Spatial Integration uses the following optional graphics card features when they are available. The table lists what changes when a feature is missing.

Feature Without it
Wide lines Lines are drawn one pixel wide
Large points Point clouds are drawn with one pixel points
Fragment shader interlock Transparency uses a slower method
Memory budget Graphics memory in use cannot be measured, so detail is managed from the total size only

Hardware Information

When a project is open, Spatial Integration writes a log file next to it, named after the project with .log added, for example Roan.si.log. The first lines of the log file describe your computer:

  • Spatial Integration version
  • Operating system, processor and system memory
  • Every graphics card found, and which one is in use
  • Graphics driver and graphics memory
  • Window size, anti-aliasing level and transparency layers
  • Which optional graphics features were found

Please include the log file when contacting support.

If Spatial Integration does not start, update your graphics driver first. On Linux, vulkaninfo --summary from the vulkan-tools package lists your graphics cards and their drivers.