Error: Hardware acceleration is unsupported or has been disabled on your graphics card. SketchUp requires that you use a hardware accelerated card.
SketchUp 2017 will not run if your graphics card does not support hardware acceleration.
If you see this error, updating your graphics card driver would be a good first step in troubleshooting why your card does not support hardware acceleration - often an updated graphics card driver allows your graphics card to become accelerated.
Error: Your graphics card's OpenGL version is . SketchUp requires a graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.0 or better.
SketchUp 2017 will not run if your graphics card’s OpenGL version is less than version 3.0. If you see this error, updating your graphics card driver would be a good first step to troubleshoot this error as updated drivers may upgrade the version of OpenGL that your card supports. If updating the drivers does not work, investigate whether your graphics card has the capability of supporting OpenGL version 3.0 or higher. If it does not, you will need to upgrade your graphics card.
Error: Tests that exercise your graphics card's capabilities have failed.
SketchUp 2017 will run a series of tests to determine if your graphics card has the capability of supporting the rendering functions SketchUp needs to display SketchUp models. These tests include checks like the compilation of SketchUp’s GLSL shaders and support for OpenGL framebuffer objects. If you see this error, try updating your graphics card driver to see if that helps solve this issue.
Error: Your computer's system RAM is . SketchUp requires 2GB or more of system RAM.
SketchUp 2017 requires 2GB or more of system RAM. You may be able to launch SketchUp 2017, but performance/stability will be significantly impacted. We recommend you upgrade your system RAM in order to run SketchUp 2017.
Error: Your operating system does not meet the minimum operating system requirement. SketchUp requires Windows 7 or higher.
SketchUp 2017 requires a Windows 7 64-bit operating system or higher. You will not be able to install SketchUp 2017 on lower version operating systems. Upgrading your operating system to Windows 7 64-bit or higher will fix this error.
Warning: Your computer's system RAM is . SketchUp recommends 4GB or more of system RAM. Performance may be significantly impacted.
SketchUp 2017 recommends 4GB or more of system RAM. You will likely be able to launch SketchUp 2017, but performance/stability may be significantly impacted. You may want to upgrade your system’s RAM if you experience performance/ stability problems with SketchUp 2017.
Warning: Your graphics card has MB of graphics card memory. SketchUp recommends that your graphics card has 1024 MB or more of RAM. Performance may be significantly impacted.
SketchUp 2017 recommends 1024MB or more of graphics card RAM. You will likely be able to launch SketchUp 2017, but performance/stability may be significantly impacted. You may want to upgrade your graphics card if you experience performance/ stability problems with SketchUp 2017.
We gather data on your graphics card memory by querying Microsoft’s System Information. On some cards, what Microsoft reports is incorrect. This can cause Checkup to issue this warning falsely! The presence of this incorrect result will not prevent SketchUp from running less effectively.
Warning: Your graphics card has a color buffer other than 24 bits. SketchUp recommends a 24 bit color buffer for your graphics card. You may see display issues with your current configuration.
SketchUp 2017 works best with a graphics card that supports a 24 bit color buffer. If you see display issues, you may want to upgrade your graphics card.
Warning: Your graphics card does not support stencil bits. Shadows may display incorrectly on your current configuration.
SketchUp 2017 works best with a graphics card that supports stencil bits If shadows are not displaying in your models as expected, you may want to upgrade your graphics card.
Warning: SketchUp has detected you are using () when your system is capable of using an AMD or NVIDIA graphics card () . SketchUp will likely perform better if you change your system to use the AMD/NVIDIA card.
In a system with multiple GPUs, SketchUp will likely perform better on an AMD or NVIDIA GPU than on a GPU from another vendor. If you see this warning, use your graphics card vendor software to force the SketchUp application to use your AMD or NVIDIA card.