URGENT: Disabling Hardware Acceleration?
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I accidentally enabled hardware acceleration in Sketchup, which now prevents me from starting Sketchup again (hence, the inability to turn off hardware acceleration through Sketchup settings).
I cannot remember how I disabled it the first time, but am certain it was through Windows - I seem to recall there being a way to enable-disable opengl hardware accelration for each program through Windows? ( I am using Vista, FYI)
I need to resolve this ASAP.
Thanks in advance.
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You haven't mentioned your Graphics Card.
These often have a 'Control Panel', can you disable the affects it has on individual Applications ?
Can you set it to let the application decide what to do - e.g. in Sketchup's case don't use acceleration... -
Control Panel > NVIDIA Control Panel
Manage 3d Settings > Program Settings > Google Sketchup [off dropdown menu]Adjust settings there...
You might already have a set saved for Sketchup.exe under the Global Settings tab presets ?
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@tig said:
You haven't mentioned your Graphics Card.
These often have a 'Control Panel', can you disable the affects it has on individual Applications ?
Can you set it to let the application decide what to do - e.g. in Sketchup's case don't use acceleration...I am using dual NVidia GTX 670m and a dedicated 9600m
UPDATE: I now remember right clicking desktop, clicking on "nvidia," then under 3d settings, I can bring up SketchUP's settings...
...but after that, I cannot recall which option needs to be changed - nothing says, "hardware acceleration, or "opengl"
Does turning off antialiasing sound right to anyone?
...or is it the SLI? I can switch between Nvidia recommended (which iit is now set on), or "Single GPU," or "Force Alternate Frame Rendering (1)" or "Force Alternate Frame Rendering (2)"
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@tig said:
Control Panel > NVIDIA Control Panel
Manage 3d Settings > Program Settings > Google Sketchup [off dropdown menu]Adjust settings there...
You might already have a set saved for Sketchup.exe under the Global Settings tab presets ?
No saved preset, unfortunately, but by turning of antialias, and setting SLI to "single GPU," I seem to have fixed the issue.
Thanks again, TIG.
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With that video card you should have hardware acceleration active. In fact, it would be a huge mistake not to. In SU - Window/preferences/open GL, you should have hardware acceleration checked. If you don't, SU will be painfully slow.
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@unknownuser said:
With that video card you should have hardware acceleration active. In fact, it would be a huge mistake not to. In SU - Window/preferences/open GL, you should have hardware acceleration checked. If you don't, SU will be painfully slow.
Exactly. If HW acceleration does not work properly for these cards, you may wish to update your video drivers instead of turning it off.
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