Beware of windows 8

ascolima

@ascolima said:

Hi, my laptop has "mobile intel 4 series express chipset family).

SU does - as any other OpenGL based 3D modeler - require a fully and mature OpenGL v1.5+ support. Which shared/integrated grapics subsystems of e.g. office desktops or low-end notebooks simply do not provide.

hth,
Norbert

This same exact laptop and graphics card had windows Vista before and I never had a problem with sketchUp. I was able to select the OpenGL acceleration and all my models ran smoothly.
I've been having the problem ever since I upgraded to windows 8, so your above statement is not necessarily true.
Just want to figure out how I can get it to have the GL support again, read somewhere that I could revert just the driver back to windows 7 and it should work, but no luck yet.

UPDATE, finally got it to work
the driver straight from Intel, version Windows 7, was not working for me... But I went to my laptop's manufacturer website and downloaded the driver there, and that fixed it!! Now I'm running Sketchup smoothly on Windows 8 with the graphics driver for Windows 7, and my openGL acceleration is available...

thomthom

thomthom

Still hoping for drivers for my laptop...

sketch3d.de

@ascolima said:

This same exact laptop and graphics card had windows Vista before and I never had a problem with sketchUp. I was able to select the OpenGL acceleration and all my models ran smoothly.

the recent intel HD Graphics 4000 is definitely better than Thomas ol' GMA 4500 but surely still no first choice for high poly count models.

@ascolima said:

But I went to my laptop's manufacturer website and downloaded the driver there, and that fixed it!! Now I'm running Sketchup smoothly on Windows 8 with the graphics driver for Windows 7, and my openGL acceleration is available...

many current notebooks (make/model?) do have 2 graphics subsytems integrated, the lame/integrated but powersaving intel HD graphics is used for office/internet/video stuff and the fast/dedicated but powerconsuming GeForce or Radeon is activated if processing of e.g. 3D graphics output accelerated by OpenGL is required.

For doing this the appropriate video driver for these hybrid graphics solutions needs to be installed, which is typically distributed by the manufacturer of the notebook.