SOLIDWORKS Design & Help

Created by Angel Ramirez on 9 March, 2018

How to activate real view in solidworks 2023?

I want to activate real view in solidworks but previous version system is nut working. I cant find the hardward part in registry editor. Help is much needed

3 Answers

Another reason, that your RealView isn't working even though the RealView button is visible and enabled, is that your PC (= bloody Windows) has auto-installed new graphic card drives. Re-install an older version to re-enable RealView.

In my experience with a Surface Pro 7 ("Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics") and Surface Pro 9 ("Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics"), it was a simple matter of renaming this key in the registry to whichever Intel card I had:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\AllowList\Gl2Shaders\Other\Intel(R) HD Graphics P

Notice that the hierarchy of the SW registry-keys changed significantly from SW2022 to SW2023.