Heyo guys and gals!

I recently installed Houdini 17.5 on my dell xps laptop for quick testing of small setups etc. However when I launch the application the user interface is.. Unreadable at best, but mostly I would just describe it as completely exploded and unusable. I haven't had any issue with other software, even other 3d software and I can't find any sign that my drivers are not up to date.

I've tried to restart Houdini a few times as well as changing the layout to force the interface to refresh but neither seem to have helped. Changing the layout does update the UI but the default one was the most usable one in terms of how broken it was, so no help there.

Does anyone have any advice on this?

Thanks for the read!

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There's a bug in the Intel drivers that caused this. It was fixed last month, so try updating the graphics driver.

twod
There's a bug in the Intel drivers that caused this. It was fixed last month, so try updating the graphics driver.

Hey twod,
Just asking to be sure, but when you say last month do you literally mean January of 2020? Cause if so I guess I am out of luck. Dell's latest release for the graphics driver was in November 2019.
(Trying to run this on a dell xps 9320 btw, realize I forgot to mention that.)

Thanks for the reply and insight though!