Check your Graphics Card!

Because SolidWorks relies heavily on a solid graphics card to produce all those great looking visuals of your 3D part, you can crash often if your card is not running at it's best. The best thing to check for your card is to install the recommended driver.

Go to http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

Then type in the Card that you have in your machine. If you don't know....

In Windows - Start Menu - Programs - Accessories - System information

Once you find your card and find it in SolidWorks it will tell you if it is a recommended card or not.

Now download the driver it recommends.