Sure, it does kinda/sorta work, and most programs will kinda/sorta run, but it’s buggy and slow and rife with errors and quirks just like what you’re describing here. In my experience (2015 MacBook Pro i7) boot camp appears to be little more than a shitty novelty.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to make it work smoothly or error free - I’m just saying that I’ve never been able to make it run smoothly or error free.
but you're right, just having a graphics card - ANY graphics card! - installed would instantly solve that problem. It was kind of crazy that it was just the highlighting that killed the system. so if you hovered over the feature in the feature tree, or if you accidentally moved your mouse over the edge over the part, it would take seconds and you could watch the highlight trace over the edge in real time. and the thing that would always get me is in complex models - for example, a threaded screw (again this was my first ever SW job i was drawing threads on screws), it was highlighting the feature that took the longest. "you don't need that, that's for video games" he would say.īut you really do need hardware graphics cards to run solidworks. so even though he went to the computer store and bought the "best" computer, we realized that they didn't have graphics cards. my boss was convinced that he was showering us with the best hardware possible, but that was not the case. i'm pretty sure my boss was just pocketing his investors' money, and i'm absolutely sure we were using pirated versions of solidworks. my first-first-first solidworks job was with a shady startup company.