Workspace stays completely black - is my graphic card too weak?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,

I just downloaded and installed a 90 days demo version of rhino 7. All worked fine, but now, when I opended the program, I see the work spaces/different views are all completely black. I don’t know how to get to the normal greyish screens with the planes that i see in all the youtoube tutorials.
I can see all the control panels. They display fine.
Maybe my laptop is too old? It does seem to fullfill the system requirements that I read up, but maybe the graphic card is not good enough to display anything?

thanks for your help

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You could at least copy the text from the resulting dialog of the Rhino command _SystemInfo.

Further, if you just before the change have had a Windows update installed you may want to re-install your GPU driver.

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Hi,
I didn’t know about _SystemInfo. Thanks you.
here is the desk that I get back:

Rhino 7 SR3 2021-2-8 (Rhino 7, 7.3.21039.11201, Git hash:master @ 7bcc02a54515376cb2bd3d05f62d9473ab4bc38c)
License type: Evaluation, Build 2021-02-08
License details: Stand-Alone
Expires on: 2021-05-19

Windows 10.0.18363 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 3.9Gb)

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

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: Intel(R) HD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 10-16-2017 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.4.0 - Build 20.19.15.4835
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

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

And I didn’t do a windows update.

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Recommendation is GPU with 4GB VRAM. This particular GPU isn’t very powerful.

The driver is quite old. You could try find out if there is a newer driver version available for your GPU.

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thank you. i will try that.