Graphics Card Certification Longevity

[Eric Page]

Just as a data point, I'm running Solidworks on a 4-5 year old Microsoft Surface tablet with built-in "Intel HD Graphics." I occasionally see a warning message from Solidworks that it's not supported, but the program runs fine. So, even if Solidworks stops active development for a graphics chipset, the program isn't going to refuse to run. At worst you'll see a message every few hours.

[Alan_VA]

Just as a data point, I'm running Solidworks on a 4-5 year old Microsoft Surface tablet with built-in "Intel HD Graphics." I occasionally see a warning message from Solidworks that it's not supported, but the program runs fine. So, even if Solidworks stops active development for a graphics chipset, the program isn't going to refuse to run. At worst you'll see a message every few hours.

My Frankenstein machine runs what I'll call the "basic functions" of SolidWorks with my current NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 gaming card (not on the certified hardware list), but won't touch the higher order rendering tools. That's why I still hunting.

Alan

[cwilliamrose]

I'm running an old Dell T7600 workstation but the graphics card has been upgraded. No matter what I do SWx complains about the card (which is supported by SWx but not tested on this machine). Because I run a couple of different version of SWx and setting the "no graphics notifications" for one version resets it to on for the other versions. Anyway, as much as it complains SWx still runs fine with my hardware.