Today I installed the latest studio drivers released on February the 27th, I restarted my machine and tried to open a file with sketchup 2025, it takes a few seconds and it crashes without generating any bugsplat, I tried different ways like opening from the welcome window of double clicking the file or even trying to open an empty file. Sketchup 2024 lets me open the files but after 5 mins of work the program crashes, it happened like 10 times in an hour.
I installed the previous Nvidia drivers I had Installed and both 2024 and 2025 are working perfectly fine. Has someone else experienced this or itÂŽs just me?
Thanks for the warning. I tend to have basically a âif it works, donât touch itâ approach to driver updates combined with a somewhat twice a year check for newer ones but I donât keep track on the updates on a daily basis.
I have installed the Nvidia software previously known as GeForce Experience, it tells me every time a new driverâs update is released and Iâve never had any issues with any software after an update. I wonder if this problem has to do with Nvidia or Sketchup or both, and if the developers are aware of this issue.
I have had issues with the studio drivers in the past, now I use the game ready drivers.
Could you say where you go to change to and from gaming? I have an RTX A3000 laptop that I have been trying to reproduce issues on, and so far Iâm not having any problems. It would be nice if it currently is on gaming, and that changing to the non-gaming settings then caused problems.
when youâre on the driver tab (left side), you can pick your driver in the top right menu.
Iâve always used gaming because⊠well I game. havenât updated my driver in a month or two either
Iâve always used studio drivers - at work - as they are âsupposedâ to be more stable, and never had troubles with them
I still have a previous version so thanks for letting us know
You can download the studio or gaming drivers from the Nvidiaâs website or from the Nvidia app, go to drivers on the left panel and on the upper right corner change to studio or game ready drivers.
dude, you really need to read all the messages, not just the question. that would avoid repeating what has already been said.
I posted exactly that 9h ago.
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How would I get that application? I only seem to have two Nvidia things, one is an RTX desktop manager, that doesnât look like that application. The other is the Nvidia control panel, and itâs something that looks like itâs from Windows 3.1.
or here
it used to be named âgeforce experienceâ. they renamed it a few month ago.
it can also be used to optimise softwares / games according to your config. apparently it optimised VLC and OBS on my machine, along with some games.
as of the difference, I remember reading that itâs pretty much the same.
a quick search confirms it
studio gets fewer releases, itâs supposed to be more stable. gaming on the other hand gets more frequent releases to accommodante for games updates.
but at the core, itâs not a massive difference.
Made some progress, I have that app installed now. There is no gaming or studio options, the three choices are leading edge, recommended, and conservative. I tried all three, and SketchUp seems to open ok in each case.
hmmm I think youâre in the âapp for entrepriseâ
at least from the images on the page. so they have 5 variation of basically the same driver. huh.
The graphic they show on that page is what I get:
For me the leading edge one is in first place, because thatâs what I chose when installing. I havenât seen a fourth or fifth option.
yes, you downloaded the entreprise version so you have these three.
the standard version (I linked above) has gaming and studio. hence the 5 total.
couldnât tell you why so many flavours 
It could probably be like someone mentioned, that you have a different software, but probably since you have a professional gpu instead of a gaming gpu, the software only shows you drivers for your specific A series gpu.