Sketchup 2016 performance issue with ruby coded material changes

[barry_milliken_droid]

I ran into a similar problem when moving to 2016 because of a bug in settings for hardware acceleration. See this post:

Serious Bug in Sketchup 16 Preferences OpenGL Settings

I ran into this while setting up SU16. Sometimes when you check “Use hardware acceleration” it displays the wrong options in the “capabilities list” and no hardware acceleration is used. I checked SU 15: actually had the same bug but luckily I didn’t fall into the trap. It may affect only some graphic cards. Nevertheless there is no way to tell how many existing SU users think they are running hardware acceleration but in fact are not. Details: I’m running on Window 7, 64 bit. My Graphics…