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:
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When the Installation Manager completes installing and displays the Finish page, under Check Your System, click Run System Diagnostics.
SOLIDWORKS Rx starts and runs diagnostics.
- 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
Dismiss Graphics 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
- Dismiss Subscription Notifications
- Update Graphics Drivers