Open GL - or not

I notice that Solidworks has an option for using (or not using) Open GL.
What would be the advantage of selecting the Open GL option?
(S/W 2007, NVIDIA Quadro4 700 XGL Video Card)

 

The option is to use software OGL instead of hardware OGL, so there is
no benefit for computers with OGL accelerated hardware like yours. The
reason it is there is to help troubleshoot video driver problems, and it
is automatically turned on for computers with no OGL accelerated
hardware (like cheap game cards or mobo integrated video). If you stop
crashing with software OGL turned on, then it was probably a video
driver or card problem.

The short answer is that you should leave it off.

 

If your hardware is on SW approved list then you should run with that
box unchecked to take adavantage of the approved driver and hardware.
You will find it checks itself if there is a driver problem or the
system otherwise doesn't support hardware OGL. You intentionally check
it when troubleshooting a video or SW problems to remove the video
card from the source of problems.

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Thanks to both of you. Now I know not to mess with that one.