Hi everyone,
I have an interesting problem. When I first start SW2008, it runs just fine. Everything is sufficiently responsive. However, after some period of time of working with a couple drawings and assemblies (the time it takes for this to happen varies), certain things become unbearably slow. In particular, the menu items at the top left (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc.) do not respond when I hover the mouse cursor over them. It takes upwards of 10 seconds for SW to respond to the mouse moving over the drop down menu. Also, the standard Explorer window interface to browse, open or save files is incredibly slow. As you can imagine, trying to operate in an environment like that is, in a word, frustrating. After I close every drawing and assembly, the SW drop down menus work at a normal speed, but the Explorer windows I open to browse to files from within SW are still very slow. Upon opening another drawing, the slow file menus return.
I am not working with terribly complex assemblies or drawings. My computer is running XP Professional SP3, with 4 GB of RAM, a 2.4 GHz quad core, and a Quadro FX 570. There are better machines out there, to be sure, but I'm not using an ancient machine...
I have the latest Nvidia drivers for the FX570. I've tried disabling the McAfee anti-virus (yes, I know, it's a crap program and a virus in and of itself, but I'm not in charge of IT here
and that has no effect on performance. The other applications I
typically run at the same time are Opera for web access, a terminal
window to a Prelude database system, Outlook, Adobe, Google
desktop, and several Explorer windows to access files.
Any suggestions or advice are most welcome. Thanks in advance...
I have an interesting problem. When I first start SW2008, it runs just fine. Everything is sufficiently responsive. However, after some period of time of working with a couple drawings and assemblies (the time it takes for this to happen varies), certain things become unbearably slow. In particular, the menu items at the top left (File, Edit, View, Insert, etc.) do not respond when I hover the mouse cursor over them. It takes upwards of 10 seconds for SW to respond to the mouse moving over the drop down menu. Also, the standard Explorer window interface to browse, open or save files is incredibly slow. As you can imagine, trying to operate in an environment like that is, in a word, frustrating. After I close every drawing and assembly, the SW drop down menus work at a normal speed, but the Explorer windows I open to browse to files from within SW are still very slow. Upon opening another drawing, the slow file menus return.
I am not working with terribly complex assemblies or drawings. My computer is running XP Professional SP3, with 4 GB of RAM, a 2.4 GHz quad core, and a Quadro FX 570. There are better machines out there, to be sure, but I'm not using an ancient machine...
I have the latest Nvidia drivers for the FX570. I've tried disabling the McAfee anti-virus (yes, I know, it's a crap program and a virus in and of itself, but I'm not in charge of IT here
and that has no effect on performance. The other applications I
typically run at the same time are Opera for web access, a terminal
window to a Prelude database system, Outlook, Adobe, Google
desktop, and several Explorer windows to access files.
Any suggestions or advice are most welcome. Thanks in advance...
Once the slowdown occurs, MS Office programs are affected as well. It seems that some series of functions being called by SW are also used by MS Office, and once the screwup happens, opening an Explorer window from within MS Office stuff like Excel or Word to save or open a file also takes a long time.
Looks like the SW devs will have to contact their buddies at MS and whip out their debuggers... seems something within the programming is behaving badly.
Not sure why this is under Edrawings. If I did that somehow, I apologize. Mods, I think this thread should be moved... under "Performance" looks like a better fit.