Intel Arc for Solidworks

[Reckineer]

Has anyone done any testing for how an intel arc gpu performs vs a workstation graphics card?

[Bombastinator]

31 minutes ago, Reckineer said:

Has anyone done any testing for how an intel arc gpu performs vs a workstation graphics card?

There’s a video on using a cheap one to do av1 encoding and decoding.   There is something about using it to get around an Nvidia paywall.  That’s the closest I can think of though.  It would likely depend heavily on the card and the use case. There are going to be some old cards it is faster than.

[Knarf]

I've a ARC A770 on AMD 5900x 64Gb ram and the ARC card is unusable. Completely and utterly useless with SolidWorks 2022 SP4 

So bad I've put in GTX960 back in and its 1000% better

[Luigiman54]

The fix is to open SOLIDWORKS Rx 2022 and click "Click here to launch SOLIDWORKS while bypassing the Tools/Options settings". This forces it to use hardware OpenGL acceleration.

 

To force this permanently open the registry editor and go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 2022\Performance\Graphics\Hardware\Intel and set Workarounds to 9.

[KingBananaDuck]

On 1/25/2023 at 11:08 PM, Luigiman54 said:

The fix is to open SOLIDWORKS Rx 2022 and click "Click here to launch SOLIDWORKS while bypassing the Tools/Options settings". This forces it to use hardware OpenGL acceleration.

 

To force this permanently open the registry editor and go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 2022\Performance\Graphics\Hardware\Intel and set Workarounds to 9.

But how is the performance tho? Like my gtx 1650 4gb mobile gets 200 fps in solidworks is it equal or better?

[LongLiveIntelCorp]

On 1/25/2023 at 1:08 PM, Luigiman54 said:

The fix is to open SOLIDWORKS Rx 2022 and click "Click here to launch SOLIDWORKS while bypassing the Tools/Options settings". This forces it to use hardware OpenGL acceleration.

 

To force this permanently open the registry editor and go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 2022\Performance\Graphics\Hardware\Intel and set Workarounds to 9.

Hi, I have Solidworks 2023, and my regedit goes like this: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 2022\Performance, but the Performance folder is not expandable, and there's a bunch of stuff inside it. Do you have a solution to this?