I’m using a Lenovo Thinkpad with 8gb of memory and an i5 processor. It dual boots Windows 10 and Linux. I use Linux 99% of the time. Within Linux I have VMWare with a Windows 7 guest and with VMWare tools loaded. If I run Sketchup ver 2018 in the Windows 10 installation it runs just fine and the ch…

OpenGL in Windows 7 under VMware in Linux

Anssi October 5, 2019, 6:58pm 2

Probably it is due to OpenGL limitations in your VMWare installation. I can run SketchUp 2018 and 2019 OK in my old Windows 7 computer.
Googling about VMWare and OpenGL I found this forum thread: Solved: OpenGL 3.3 - VMware Technology Network VMTN

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OpenGL in Windows 7 under VMware in Linux

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