I recently upgraded from 2016 SP5.0 to 2017 SP1.0. SW now takes a lot longer to load up. It used to take about 10 seconds, it now takes about 2 minutes. The SW splash screen takes a long time on "Loading registry..."
For other reasons, I already deleted (actually just renamed) HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Solidworks from the registry.
Any suggestions?
Hi Loren,
Have you updated your graphics driver to the current recommendation for 2017 (Graphics Card Drivers | Hardware & System Requirements | SOLIDWORKS )? If you updated major releases I might expect a new driver would be recommended and could help a good deal with performance issues.
Is this a laptop or a desktop? What make/model?
Ryan,
I updated my graphics driver (through SW diagnostics tool). This did not help.
This is a non-branded desktop assembled by a local computer shop. Here are the basic specs:
Intel i7-4770
32Gb ram
AMD FirePro W5000 (driver version is now 15.301.2601.1002)
Windows 7 SP1
Any other suggestions?
Besides what the other users mentioned (add-ins set to load on start-up) you may want to go into the operating system's power settings (search "Change power-saving settings" in the Windows Start menu) and make sure you are set to the "High performance" option.
Ryan,
It was set to "balanced". I changed it to "high performance". It did not fix the problem, but might improve performance in other ways. Thanks for the advice.
The only other thing that comes to mind is that you may be seeing this bug:
SPR 990482: Opening Solidworks 2017 splash screen 'Loading Registry' for a few minutes (slow start-up) - starting
Ryan probably has the correct solution (usually does) but maybe he can shed some light on this. My SW takes about 18 seconds to open (have a fairly old machine. There is an .exe file that should load with sw called sldworks_fs.exe. I believe the fs stands for fast start. Is it loading in your Windows Task Manager (Processes)?... I have 4 versions on my machine I expect that is the reason there is four fs'.
Hi Dennis,
Since you have 4 versions of the software on your machine I would expect to find 4 sldworks_fs.exe processes running on it as well. If you find these to be an issue you can go into the Windows Start menu to 'All Programs', 'Start-up' and delete the shortcuts for the versions of SolidWorks you do not want to use with fast start.
I've not seen these slowdown start-up though.
Check Tools-->Add-Ins to see if the upgrade activated an Add-In you don't want.
It does that to me every time and I have to turn off the stuff I don't want to load.
I'm betting its an add-in issue as well...
Just for luck, I disabled the only 3 add-ins. It did not fix the problem.
While loading, SW spends most of the time loading the registry:
Is "Loading registry..." a clue as to why it is taking so long?
One way to check is to load it with factory settings. You can do this by renaming the registry key and opening Solidworks. I would only recommend doing this if you feel comfortable in the registry.
Resetting the SOLIDWORKS registry
If this fixes the problem then it is something in your user setting causing the long load time.
Also, you can try launching it from Solidworks Rx in safe mode bypassing the tools/options settings.
I finally found a solution for this. I uninstalled (and reinstalled) AVG. Simply disabling AVG did not work. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
Credit for this solution belongs to Kevin Pymm: 2017 Start up times
I finally found a solution for this. I uninstalled (and reinstalled) AVG. Simply disabling AVG did not work. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
Credit for this solution belongs to Kevin Pymm: 2017 Start up times