How long is it taking for your seat of Solidworks to start up. We have 3 seats here and they take around 2 minutes to start up. All add ons have been disabled just in case it was that that was making the delay.
Is there any way to speed up the start up?
Xeon processor, 16 Gig ram AMD firepro 5100 card.
Thanks
Steve
Thanks of the reply, but currently I dont have any folders being referenced in "Reference Documents"
Any more ideas?
Thanks
Steve
No, sorry. I thought you had slow ASSEMBLY load times! *facepalm*
Steve Crompton wrote:
How long is it taking for your seat of Solidworks to start up.
Just a few seconds.
Another discussion in this forum sounds like a similar situation. The problem was being caused by the antivirus program studying the SW file. Resetting their AV to not bother SW files supposedly solved the problem.
Best way to speed up load times is getting an SSD hard drive that the main program files are loaded from.
I assume you are launching SW from an icon and not loading a file at the same time.
I saw that thread and stopped the AV looking at the solidworks files, unfortunately it made no difference.
Thanks
Steve
Hi Yes
Launching from the icon.
Maybe a call to the VAR is in order.
Steve
I just timed 2017 loading... 20 seconds
this is my computer with 200GB SSD...
I see same behavior with SW2017.
Seems odd that some are getting load times of 20 seconds and we are getting 2 minutes. Surely it cant be a SSD thing can it?
I've put a call into my VAR. I'll let you know the outcome of that.
Steve
Could be as mine is not SSD.
Mine takes 13 seconds, including all add-ins.
I'm using Windows-7. I assume you are also.
Do a Windows search for msconfig and click on msconfig.exe.
click on the Startup tab.
Using great care not to turn off anything important, uncheck everything else. You will need a reboot when you exit.
Sometimes it is quite amazing how much is running at boot in the background.
Primary things I would look at (this discussion's already hit on most of them):
Chances are that in any random loading time problem, your biggest culprits are going to be HD and "idle" performance, maybe add-ins (which you said were all turned off). Graphics cards and system RAM aren't usually a big deal until you open files. I'll let more dedicated hardware nerds discuss where your processor comes into play here, but I doubt it's the primary suspect.
(I'd go into the details of my system, but for now I'll say that I'm in the 22-24s range for load times, and I mostly blame the "idle" processes. For some reason we have a service for helping run our phones that runs on each computer, and I hate it. It adds 8 seconds to my Outlook open times... which... why?)
I had this same issue with slow startup times. Do you have AVG Antivirus installed on your PC? If so... Uninstall AVG from your PC, Then Start SW 2017 again and see if it fixes your issue. If it does, you can then reinstall AVG and it will work just fine.
Hope This helps. It worked for me.
David Mandl wrote:
... which... why?)
Phones are important for a business and the salesman for that phone system is gooooood...
Yeah, no kidding.
We have a phone system connected to our desktops here also (Cisco Jabber), and I really like it. When someone is calling me a button appears at the lower right corner of my primary monitor that I can click. That will answer the phone and put it on speaker. There's another button I can click at any time to hang up. And when I need to make a call I can pull up the software and enter the number from my keypad. Hit Enter and it dials it. My phone is sitting on the far corner of my desk where I can barely reach it since I almost never actually need to.
Just come off the phone to my VAR. There is an SPR out just for this very thing.
Tried switching AVG and various services off but to no avail. So those of us that have this issue will just have to sit it out until Solidworks come up with a fix.
Thanks
Steve
Please post the SPR number here, so that others having the same problem can add their vote to promote the fix.
Have you tried uninstalling AVG as Eric suggested rather than just turning off the services? I'm sure there were still parts of AVG hanging onto SolidWorks somewhere & causing issues. Best to remove it from the equation totally, try running SW's & then reinstall. Worth a go if it sorted Eric's issues.
After full system reboot 9 seconds.
Subsequent new SW sessions 4 seconds.
SW17-SP1, SSD, No active add-ins,
I've requested the SPR number from my VAR so I can post it here.
Steve
SPR #: 990482
One of my colleagues had this problem. The fix was to remove the default file location under "Reference Documents" in the options screen.