diff --git a/linien-gui/linien_gui/ui/plot_widget.py b/linien-gui/linien_gui/ui/plot_widget.py
index f3b81ce..7d865a3 100644
--- a/linien-gui/linien_gui/ui/plot_widget.py
+++ b/linien-gui/linien_gui/ui/plot_widget.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from pyqtgraph.Qt import QtCore
 # NOTE: this is required for using a pen_width > 1. There is a bug though that causes
 # the plot to be way too small. Therefore, we call PlotWidget.resize() after a while
 pg.setConfigOptions(
-    useOpenGL=True,
+    useOpenGL=False,
     # by default, pyqtgraph tries to clean some things up using atexit. This causes
     # problems with rpyc objects as their connection is already closed. Therefore, we
     # disable this cleanup.