HOW TO FIX solidworks realview graphics not working 

Thanks so much for the super thanks JEFF! Glad this was helpful!

Oh wow! so glad to hear it's resolved and VERY MUCH appreciate the tip! Thanks Justin!!

Awesome - I still have to roll mine back every 8 months or so. SW and Windows 10. FML. :-)

Awesome so glad this helps and THANKS FOR THE SUPER CHAT!

Awesome!! Thanks so much Benjamin! To be totally honest, I feel like I actually did disable this (I usually do) and somehow it got toggled back on. I don't know if windows did this as well during an update (which would be totally jacked) or if somehow the nVidia updated did an end run around that setting....so this saga might not be over yet. But I'm gonna keep an eye on it and if I find out that I have to make a Firewall rule to block the nVidia updater, I'll circle back and let you know how I did it. For now I'm just gonna keep an eye on it, and hope for the best. Thanks again for the SUPER THANKS!!

@@TooTallToby Me being totally lazy, if there's a way to do this update to block automatic GPU driver update as part of a script that is run post-install as part of admin image that would be icing on the cake. We have a bunch of machines and keeping them uniform is about like herding cats, I blame Windows Update for most "random changes" and "it was working yesterday" cases.

That one I dont know - maybe hit the SOLIDWORKS discord - there are some pretty heavy hitters in there who do more on the admin side of windows :-)

Awww yeah!! Glad you are back up and running!

Glad this helped!

That is a reasonable concern - thanks for pointing this out. I think this video is ideal for people who run into the issue where "It was working fine yesterday, but not it is no longer working". For those situations, the best solution is probably to roll back your driver. Thanks again for the feedback and hope this helps!

Not sure - its gonna depend on the graphics card and the build of SW. I wish they had better support for this kinda stuff on their end..... but I guess we (the users) just have to figure it out ourselves

Hi Art - According to this page: www.solidworks.com/support/hardware-certification/ the T600s are generally supported. So it could be driver, for sure. I'd try that. i'd also take a look at this article, make sure the BIOS on that system is set to disable graphics card switching. That way you'll always be using the nVidia card. www.engineersrule.com/new-workstation-acting-sluggish-heres-what-to-do/ Let us know if you get it resolved, and what the solution is Toby PS - remember to test this when working with PARTS - since the realview icon wont show up in an assembly with large assembly mode turned on.

Awesome so glad this helps and THANKS FOR THE SUPER THANKS! !

Awww yeah!!! Glad this helped!!

I got the driver from the nVidia site - that really stinks that this is happening in Windows 11 with seemingly no easy solution. One thing that sometimes works for me is toggling the option in SYSTEM OPTIONS>PERFORMANCE (in SOLIDWORKS) at the bottom for "use advanced graphics (requires restart of solidworks)". Maybe try that and see if either "on" or "off" gives you realview. So frustrating! I feel your pain Marcus...

@@TooTallToby It worked! For now atleast.

No - you'll probably just have to do some trial and error - maybe start with the newest and work your way backwards. Remember also that toggling the option for "Enhanced Graphics Performance" can also make a significant difference, so for each driver try toggling this option on and off. Hopefully one of these will help - LMK how it goes and good luck!

You'll probably need to do something similar - Look at the SOLIDWORKS website for graphics cards and see if you can find an older driver for that card, and then try to uninstall the newer driver and load the older driver. To be fair - I'm not sure if that specific radeon model is supported for SolidWorks, but that's what I would try to get make it work.

Awesome! Glad this helped!

This tip is really for people who had a graphics card that WAS working with realview, and then all of a sudden stopped. If you are using an integrated intel card, and realview WAS working (in the past) but stopped, this tip for rolling back the graphics driver might resolve the issue. But if realivew NEVER worked, then this tip probably wont help you. That card might not support realview, at all, so you'll have to look for another solution (possibly a registry hack, or possibly a different laptop with a graphics card that supports realview in SOLIDWORKS.

I also wish there was an actual fix. This is probably a good question for the actual development / support team at SOLIDWORKS, as I often see people running into Graphics issues (on other forums) - I'm not sure what that's all about, I just know that when I all of a sudden lose realview, this "fix" seems to get it back. But, like you said, that means I lose functionally in other (newer) programs. Blah!!! So frustrating.

my pleasure!

Did you roll back the driver as shown in the video? Maybe try to disable ENHANCED GRAPHICS PERFORMACE?

Probably TOOLS> LARGE ASSEMBLY MODE (in newer versions of solidWorks its called "TOOLS>LARGE ASSEMBLY SETTINGS" or something like that). When you have large assembly mode turned on, realview is disabled.

@@TooTallToby Yes that was it, Thanks!... One more question, are you familiar with eDrawings with Solidwork? I have a SW model with the "RealView Graphic" on and model looks great. But when I do an eDrawing of the model, the eDrawing shows it like if I had "RealView" off. Is there a setting somewhere so the eDrawing models shows the RealView Graphics?

Awesome so glad this helps and THANKS FOR THE SUPER CHAT!

SolidWorks has "Freeform" which lets you push and pull surfaces. but the transition between 2 faces still needs to be manually established. So no, not really anything like Zbrush. there are add ins that do this in SolidWorks but I havent used any

@@TooTallToby yes “freeform” for pushing/ pulling surfaces . I wish there was a tool with no need to go back to zbrush because you loose your mesh geometry. Thank you! :)

Awww yeah - glad this helped!

My solidworks version 2018

Since the GeForce cards aren't typically recommended for SOLIDWORKS, you'll probably have to a registry edit. Google "SolidWorks GeForce Realview Registry" and you'll probably find the key that needs to be edited. Just ADVANCE WITH CAUTION so you don't mess up windows :-)

@@TooTallToby ok toby, thankyou 🙏

Glad it helped!

I still use 10 but most users have to use whatever OS their company issues

@@TooTallToby I have 10 but it doesn't work I saw much vids in RU-vid but it doesn't work again

@@TooTallToby I have great capabilities on my device, but I cannot use real view

maybe try adjusting the setting for ENHANCED GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE in your system settings (under performance) @@ahmedfarahat3680

@@TooTallToby Can I contact with you?

Você é bem vindo! Obrigado pela dica!

Wow THANK YOU and glad this helped!

Awesome Tony!

Glad that helped!

Awww yeah! Glad this helped!

THANKS SO MUCH RIGOBERTO!!!

Wow! thanks so much Tushar!! Very much appreciated!!!

Awesome! Thank you and GLAD this helped!!