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Validating Your Graphics Card When Installing or Upgrading

When you finish installing or upgrading SOLIDWORKS on your machine, you should run SOLIDWORKS Rx to ensure that your machine is running a supported graphics card and graphics card driver.

To validate a graphics card and driver:

  1. When the Installation Manager completes installing and displays the Finish page, under Check Your System, click Run System Diagnostics.

    SOLIDWORKS Rx launches and runs diagnostics.

  2. SOLIDWORKS Rx confirms if the graphics card and graphics card driver are supported. If the graphics card is supported but the driver is not, a status message may provide a link to a supported driver.

Every tenth time you start SOLIDWORKS, a Check Your System message appears and recommends that you run system diagnostics again. To suppress these notifications, right-click SOLIDWORKS Resource Monitor in the Windows notification area and click Turn Off Notifications.

You can validate a graphics card and driver at any time by right-clicking SOLIDWORKS Resource Monitor in the Windows notification area. The shortcut menu also lets you:
  • Display Help for the SOLIDWORKS Resource Monitor
  • Run System Diagnostics
  • Update Graphics Drivers


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