My total memory usage seems high (1.9gb), have 2gb of system memory. Solidworks is eating up 1.2gb of that with the model. I would go ahead and blame that as the problem, but I've opened up this assembly before without any issues. I would have IT install more ram, but putting in 3gb made my system slower (unmatched ram), and I can't go to 4gb because I'm on windows 32bit. Any ideas?
Dell precision M4400
intel core duo CPU
P8600 2.4ghz
solidworks 2009 SP4.1
well I turned off the "hide underlines letters for keyboard navigation", and also turned off "shadows in shaded mode" and that seems to have helped so far (at least an hour of stable use without crashing). Will let you know if it happens again.
You most assuredly can go to 4GB RAM in a x32 system. Check your motherboard specs'.
By mismatched RAM, do you mean different manufacturers?
Setting the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file would probably help your system.
http://kcswug.com/documents/articles/3gb_switch_part_one,_two,_&_three.pdf
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q291988/
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm
unmatched 3gb meaning I'd have a 2gb stick and a 1gb stick, "Asymmetric array mode" rather than "Symmetric array mode". Yes I CAN run 4gb, but windows won't actually see all of it (can only use 3.5gb of it because the system uses part of it), so yes I could have 3.5gb, but our IT department seems to think it's a waste off hardware.
What is different on your machine now that it is not working well, as opposed to when it was working well?
New version of SolidWorks or .......
I guess your IT department does not value your time as being worth a $100 to upgrade to 4 gigs of memory. That is unfortunate as that is likely your problem, not enough memory in your computer.
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=F42438ECA5CA7304
Cheers,
Anna
So your IT people don't believe that 3.5GB is much of an improvement over 2GB??
Try suggesting to them that they upgrade the M4400 to x64 OS, and max the RAM to 8GB.
my company doesn't always makes sense as far as spending money. And yes, I could have windows 64-bit installed, but that would require a lot of things to be re-installed, and there never seems to be a break from projects to do a switchover.
So your IT people don't believe that 3.5GB is much of an improvement over 2GB??
Try suggesting to them that they upgrade the M4400 to x64 OS, and max the RAM to 8GB.