I run an MSI laptop with an Nvidia RTX 2070 Super graphics card in it. However, Sketchup only recognizes the onboard intel card. I’ve tried changing the Graphics Performance Preference to High Perforamance in Windows Graphics Settings, I’ve changed the Program Settings in the Nvidia Controller to no avail. After opening Sketchup and checking the preferences and Graphics Card Details it tells: SketchUp has detected your computer system has multiple graphics cards and is defaulting to an integrated Intel graphics card. SketchUp will perform better if you change your system to default to the NVIDIA card.
This is driving me crazy. Paid for a great graphics card, but sketchup wont use it and lags like crazy in large models. Please help!
Are you using a dock to connect an external monitor? Some of these refuse to support the Nvidia graphics card or OpenGL. If you are, connecting the monitor directly to your laptop might help.
A more drastic thing to try might be disabling the onboard graphics altogether in Device Manager.
I do have an external monitor connected, however it is direct into the laptop, no dock. Sketchup behaves the same way when running only on the latptop too. I’ve tried to disable the onboard gpu with no luck either.
Might make a difference. Correct installation on Windows requires that process. Close SketchUp, find the downloaded installer or download it again from Download All | SketchUp Right click on it, choose Run as administrator and then if prompted, choose Repair.
No there shouldn’t be any kind of lockdown on it. It allowed me to ignore the error and continue the install and Sketchup works, but perhaps this has something to do with the GPU?
Solved it! When uninstalling, it never did a complete uninstall and left libGLESv2.dll in the folder and wouldn’t let it install a clean copy. I deleted the entire folder after and uninstall and reinstalled. This fixed it, finally. Been working at it for months.
