JimD one of my friend tell me that sketchup versions below 2017 have an option of enabling and disabling the hardware acceleration while 2017 and 2018 doesn’t have. disabling hardware acceleration option in opengl might fix this problem so that is why i am planning to downgrade to 2016 or 2015 and check this last option, if it didn’t work then I will have to upgrade my laptop or shift to some other 3d modelling platform.
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I have been using Sketchup for several years and when I use my laptop I have the same issue.What I do, which is still a pain in the rear but better than buying a new laptop is open the desired drawing, wait for it to finish loading, you know this when you can select a tool on one of your toolbars. Then I select 1 item or face and then another. If ithere is any lag between, I close and reopen until there’s no lag. Sometimes I’ve opened it and it works, sometimes I have to open and close several times, but once there is no lag it works fine until I open something new or close and reopen a project. How this helps.
Hope this is helpful, engrwaleed. I thought I had chosen a good graphics card, but when SU would only creep along with shadows on, I found this information on card ratings in this forum. Go to https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ to see if you can find your card and how it stacks up, but also what might be better suited for you. I chose one that was a good balance of price and performance, and the difference was night and day. I’m currently using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 and am very happy with it.
To another of your comments where you say SU will say “not responding” every five minutes, that’s SU doing an autosave. That baffled me as well until I figured it out. The bigger the model, the longer each save will take. I believe you can either turn off the autosave function (that would be the death of me!) or change the frequency of autosaves.
This text has been a part of the SketchUp hardware and software requirements page for as long as I can remember (from v.4 at least):
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