Ubuntu – Sketchup was unable to initialize OpenGL

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I have installed Sketchup on my computer with with WineTricks, however this time I get the following error message when I start sketchup (after the intro window):

Sketchup was unable to initialize Open GL

I googled the error and found out that to solve, as winehq puts it:

If you get the error "SketchUp was unable to initialize OpenGL!", run
regedit, open
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\GLConfig\Display, and
change HW_OK to 1. "

However this doesn't work because what I get is this when I open regedit, I cannot apply any changes because there isn't even a google folder to open!

It is not a hardware error because I have installed Sketchup before on this computer with the same operating system (I had to reinstall Ubuntu) and I didn't have that many issues. I have tried Installing sketchup from the main website as I had done previously but it is not working now.

Thank you.

Best Answer

I had this problem too: You can find the key by doing this:

  • In the dash, type 'wine' and amongst others it shows the icon for the winetricks program.
  • If you start that, you can then choose 'sketchup' in the boxes, and choose to run 'regedit' thereafter...
  • Once I did that I could find the key as mentioned above, and change it to a '1'.
  • Close it, restart sketchup, and TADA! it works :)
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