After upgrading to a super-turbo charged computer system lately, I had noticed that Google Earth was running choppy for me. Zooming in under Google Earth was choppy and painful to work through.
When Google Earth first got choppy, I tried everything that everyone else was suggesting to improve performance. Many of the bulletin boards and supposed answer boards (for lack of a better term) tossed out all kinds of suggestions about system drivers, bandwidth, service provider and other such premises. All seemingly logical ideas, but uninstalling updated drivers didn’t seem right to me when Google Earth was the only choppy application on my system.
I reinstalled it properly, then I tore through all the other options available to speed up the Google Earth application. At some point, Google Earth stopped running. It would open, show me the globe and freeze.
I navigated through my start menu and one of the options under the Google Earth folder was to start Google Earth in DirectX.
You see, Google Earth defaults to OpenGL. Once I went to DirectX, things were right once again with my Google Earth installation. I didn’t have to delete any tour, bookmarks, change any system drivers… I just simply switched Google Earth from OpenGL to DirectX.
