Rhino 7 - BLACK screen in Rendered View

@felipepdoac almost always this is a graphics driver issue. Update all your drivers (intel and standalone) if so equipped.

use the custom install option, and then check the “clean install” option- restart and try rhino again.

also see this article- Soooo, you bought a laptop with hybrid graphics and rhino doesn't run right. READ THIS - #4 by theoutside

also make sure you run help>check for updates in rhino to make sure you have the latest service release.

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Hi everyone.
I have a solution:
first step: Tools > Options > View > OpenGl: turn off/ set none: GPU Tessellation
second: Tools > Options > Advanced > then turn off: Rhino.Options.OpenGL.UseHardwareDriver

Thanks for the solution, HungaroCAD Budapest and Rhino Barcelona.
Have a nice day!

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Huge thank you for that comment! It worked perfectly for a blackout of all four viewports :smiley:

Please note that this is ONLY a solution if you are running very old or underpowered hardware and should only be applied when all other options have been tried. You are basically crippling Rhino to run on the bare minimum of instructions in terms of graphics, and you use none of the (potential) power in your graphics card.
-Jakob

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WAIT!! before you do this… make sure to check all your graphic driver dates.

if all you have is an intel hd, grab this tool and update your intel driver.(IMPORTANT!! don’t use the update driver function of the device manager it’s a complete POS and does NOT work)

update your intel drivers, restart your machine and try rhino again.

if it fails, don’t cripple the gpu as stated above, use the open GL slider instead. drag it one click to the left at a time and try rhino. if it does not work, drag one more click to the left until it works correctly.

Posting the results from running the systeminfo command in rhino will help us a lot in understanding which part of your machine is having the problem.

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