Video Card Recommendations

Dedicated video cards supporting DirectX 11 or later are strongly recommended.

Consider video cards designed to support CAD applications. The following list of recommendations can help improve performance.

Use Hardware Acceleration

Hardware acceleration provides faster display of large models upon refresh and quicker switching between windows of views.

For more information, see Hardware Acceleration.

  1. Click File tab Options.
  2. Click the Hardware tab.
  3. Enable Use Hardware Acceleration (Direct 3D®).
  4. Enable Draw visible elements only.
  5. Restart Revit.