Hello, I’ve been testing Sketchup for a day now to see if the performance is better than on my Girlfriends Surface Pro 4. Sadly I can’t seem to activate Hardware Acceleration even after trying all the tips and tricks from the forum. Short Speclist: i7 6700k (without dedicated GPU) 32GB DDR4 RAM G…

No, to clarify this is a Desktop Tower and I’m comparing it to a Surface Pro. The Surface is having no performance problems while my Desktop Tower is struggeling

Looking at GPUZ with a 12MB file loaded when I use the orbit command , the core clock gets up to about 1113Mhz and the memory clock gets to 1752 Mhz. Can you play games smoothly?

Yes gaming is absolutly possible, the expected result with such a card. This is also not a new PC, it ran well the last 2 years. When playing games, or any other 3D application for that matter (like AutoCAD and Fusion360) the card turbos up like expected. In SketchUp however it doesn’t really turbo…

Try repairing the installation by right clicking on the installation file and selecting “Install as Administrator”

Not all 3D applications use OpenGL so your comparison might be apples and oranges. This does sound like you’ve possibly not installed SketchUp correctly. Try @RLGL ’s suggestion making sure you are signed into the computer with your normal sign in.

After Repairing as Administrator it displays the same symptoms, no switch for Hardware Acceleration. @RLGL I’m signed in as an local Administrator Account, the PC is not joined in any domain. And the GPU works in another OpenGL application just fine.

[image] DaDesasta: no switch for Hardware Acceleration. Where are you expecting to see a switch for Hardware Acceleration?

[image] DaDesasta: After Repairing as Administrator it displays the same symptoms, no switch for Hardware Acceleration Am I mis-remembering? As I recall, the last version that had the option of turning off Hardware Acceleration was 2016! If I’m right, then your attempts to turn it off will be…

The last SketchUp version to have a “switch” for Hardware Acceleration was indeed SU2016. Turning off Hardware Acceleration in Preferences>OpenGL dumped rendering duties to the CPU and was useful for computers with feeble GPUs. There is no such option in SU2017 or later. @DaDesasta , you might look …

SU Make 2017 not using Hardware Acceleration

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RLGL August 25, 2018, 1:51pm 2

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