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Archicad 23 wont open on Microsoft Surface 16 GB i7.

Anonymous
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I have a problem using Archicad 23. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 4, 16 GB ram, Intel i7 6650U, 512 GB memory, Intel Iris 540 graphics and Archicad 23 with student license. When i open the software and the new project window appears, i click on new project and 50% of the time it stays loadind and nothing happens, i have to use the task manager to close it and try again untill it works, if it works. The other problem is that every time i try to close Archicad, it just stays loadindg with a gray background and i have to use the task manager again to close it. Beside this two problems, the software runns perfectly fine.
If someone knows what is happening i would be very thankull.
Thanks.
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
I've moved your post to the Hardware forum and deleted the duplicate. Please post any question just once in what seems like the most appropriate subforum 🙂

A similar report from April was caused by a printer driver issue and was resolved by a Preferences Cleaning:

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=70183#p325697
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
It could also be the Intel Iris 540 graphics.
I am not a 'techie', but if this is an built-in video card (i.e. not a separate dedicated card) then this could be the issue.
Archicad does not really like built in cards.
You could try ensuring your graphic drivers are up to date.

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