I'm convinced, until someone is kind enough to clear up any faulty assumptions/logic on my part, that latest graphics driver is seldom best if either the card or application are not latest. It seems that there's a good driver version match for the card/chipset and the version of SW you have, findin...

I have used lmutil in a command prompt to get license usage including who is using it. You could run that and parse out the users. You can run this here if you have SolidWorks 2021 installed: "C:\Program files\Common Files\SOLIDWORKS Shared\2021\lmutil" lmstat -a -c 25734@<license server n...

We turn RealView off with these registry settings:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SOLIDWORKS 2021\Performance]
"Saved OGL Settings"=dword:00000035
"OGL Display Shaders"=dword:00000000

You don't need to have online licensing for it to work, we have network licenses. My understanding is that you have to have the "Help make SOLIDWORKS products better..." setting turned on in the System Options so it'll send the session details back to SOLIDWORKS. I use it to get a feeling ...

Hey Mike,

I have this problem when I have the "SW Last Saved With" column turned on in file explorer and I'm moving files into the directory with those turned on. The only way to make it lower the CPU usage after is to kill explorer.exe and restart it in Task Manager.