Rhino render is not working help :(

Rendering
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hi my render command is not working at all. yes i have the plugin installed and yes it says it is running but nothing has happened i even reset my rhino to see if that worked but nothing happens. it does not even open in safe mode either

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please post your systeminfo and if possible your file

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Rhino 8 SR23 2025-9-8 (Rhino 8, 8.23.25251.13001, Git hash:master @ e75a9d62e23cc6f52d4ef68eb7eda9f8da9b6cd9)
License type: Educational, build 2025-09-08
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32GB)
.NET 8.0.14

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [100% battery remaining]

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 2-22-2023 (M-D-Y).

Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

  • Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
    Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 6GB, Driver date: 11-10-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 546.18

Integrated accelerated graphics device with 1 adapter port(s)

  • Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 11-10-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.4618
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 6141 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\BlockEdit.rhp “BlockEdit” 8.23.25251.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

cadmapper-sydney-new-south-wales-au 2.3dm (5.1 MB)

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Update your GPU driver to the latest available. The driver from 2023 is too old.

After that make sure that the RhinoCycles plug-in is enabled and loaded too.

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how do i update it

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rhinocycles will not enable

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Go to Driver Details | NVIDIA , download the driver installer. After downloading run the installer program. Choose to do custom installation and from there ensure the checkbox for doing a clean installation is checked.

Any error messages? At any rate enable it only after you have completed the GPU driver update. Make sure that you don’t have Rhino running while you do the update. It is probably a good idea to restart your laptop after you have completed the update before trying Rhino again.