I'm running Windows 10 64X on a PC
I sorted this successfully:
Searched C:\ drive for JAVA.EXE
Results beside SweetHome logo caame up with multiple versions of JAVA.EXE, JAVAW.EXE & JAVAWS.EXE
I opened each in turn and applied the following:


Find java.exe you installed. - (You've just done this ...

Hello Emmanuel
It's a shame you haven't heard back from Leif.
I too have been having a lot of trouble with the same issues - win10x64, SH3D V5.7, 4K monitor, GLX950 video card, Java 8-181, all drivers fully up-to-date - have tried playing with the two ini files to no avail - this morning went back ...

Hello Emmanuel
Tried something different - logged out of Administrator and logged on as Lawrie and guess what - SweetHome3D has booted up and looks like it will work - so not the OpenGL or the GTX950 - I'm suspecting something to do with security and permissions - will look further into this ...

Hi All
Dragged out old HP Notebook, updated Intel HD 5300 driver and latest WIndows 10 updates, checked for DirectX = 12, OpenGL only 4.4 and it's the latest that the card will accept.
Downloaded SW3D and it OPENED!
Well that has me wondering what's going on with my bigger, newer, highly spec'd ...

Thank you BDFD. It's got me stumped. I'm going to try on another Win 10 computer and will download SweetHome3D onto that and see what happens - it's only a HP tablet with Intel HD 5300 graphics card so will be interested to see what happens - don't know what the DirectX or OpenGL numbers are will ...

Thank you Emmanuel.
Would you imagine that another gpu would do the trick?
The GTX950 I bought new 12 months ago and nVidia claimed it had OpenGL 4.5 available on it but from programme "OpenGL Extension Viewer 5.0" only 10 of the 11 core features is available on my card.
Would you be kind enough to ...

I too have 5.7 and the latest version of Java 162, Win 10, GeForce GTX950/PCIe SSE2 which has OpenGL version 4.4 (has 4.5 with 10/11 core features supported - not supported: Shading Language version 4.50, also has 4.6 with the same supported core features with the exception of Shading Language ...