I am not wanting to do the visualisation using the PBS -X option, which
will forward the X11 graphics from the compute mnodes to my desktop screen.
I want to do it completely non-interactively.
Agreed. Don't forward X, N compute nodes sending their graphics calls over
the network to your
Lester,
ParaView 4.4 won't have any major OpenGL related changes so it should work
on platforms ParaView 4.3 or earlier worked. ParaView 5 (with its use of
OpenGL 2.1/3.2 features) should indeed still work on Windows 7/8 with
relatively modern drivers. Note, OpenGL 3.2 is still quite old