1 hour ago, DanielGingras said:

Disabling hardware acceleration will lower performance when working with more complex parts. Simple training parts shouldn't see any significant problems but most parts used in industrial settings will see a performance hit. Of course, integrated graphics cards aren't recommended for Mastercam. If you're using this computer for work it'd be best if you acquired a decent graphics card.

I've been trying to convince the boss of that very thing.  I saw that this setup didn't meet the min requirements listed on Mastercam's website for the video card or processor.  I was told to try it anyway.

On 12/12/2017 at 3:43 PM, DanielGingras said:

Well, your system specs definitely meet the minimum! Just to eliminate a faulty graphics driver, press the windows key/start button and scroll through your applications list until you find the Mastercam 2018 Demo folder. Click on "Advanced Configuration" and choose "Graphics support." Whatever the Hardware acceleration option currently is, switch to the opposite (i.e., disable it if it's enabled and disable if it's currently enabled). Then try to run Mastercam again and see if it still hangs on the startup tasks portion.

I am not using HLE, but this did work for Mastercam 2017.  Will disabling these settings have any negative affects elsewhere in Mastercam?  For reference here are the specs on my laptop:

Windows 10 64-bit

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650u CPU @ 2.11 GHz

Memory (RAM): 24.0 GB

Graphics: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620