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Posted by arm64appcompatguy at Jun 8, 2018, 7:17:01 PM
SH3D on Windows 10 on ARM works using DirectX
Hi,

I'm one of the Microsoft employees tasked with getting various apps to work well on Windows 10 on ARM. Sweet Home 3D is on my list.

One of the unfortunate limitations of the current ARM64 Windows devices is that they have no OpenGL support in their drivers. This means that the amazing Windows installer provided by Sweet Home 3D works fine, but the application tends to either crash on start or leave the rendering area blank. Because of this I added an app compat shim to block the current major revision of the installer from running.

Not satisfied with this, I went digging on the forum and found this wonderful post:
http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,6818_offset,7

The instructions there for using the JAR version of the program with -Dj3d.rend=d3d work beautifully, and Sweet Home 3D actually performs quite well under our emulation.

I hope this helps someone out. Sweet Home 3D is really a neat product.

Thanks!