Sketchup crashes as soon as main window loads

[DanRathbun]

@butler1233

I couldn’t open the application to change the preferences, so I had to go into regedit and go to “HKCU/Software/Sketchup/Sketchup2016/Preferences”

… However, the Prefrences dialog now doesn’t work.

There is more than one registry attribute that needs to be changed. You have likely gotten them “out of whack.”

Use POSH, GmbH’s free utilities to change the registry settings whilst SketchUp is not running.

• http://www.posh.de/filebase/category/11-tools/?l=2

They are a German distributor for SketchUp. (@sketch3d_de, represents them here.)

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Otherwise you can use the batch files I posed:

For SketchUp 2016:

[Win] Setting Preferences > OpenGL switches off via batch script - #6 by DanRathbun

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For SketchUp 2015:

[Win] Setting Preferences > OpenGL switches off via batch script

Continuing the discussion from SketchUp runs slowly in Windows 10, any ideas?: set_skp2015_gfx_minimum.zip (353 Bytes) The included batch script uses reg.exe to switch off the 3 checkboxes in the OpenGL panel of the Preferences dialog. ie: Use hardware acceleration Use maximum texture size Use fast feedback Right-click the cmd script and choose Run as Administrator. Then try and see if SketchUp will start. You can then test these switches in reverse order, ie fast feedback 1st, until you f…