Slow down

Hello,
I seem to have a problem with SW slowing down after a period.
In my previous installation it worked great for a few months then
started slowing down. By that I mean it would take forever for the
cursor to change from say the rotate icon to the arrow icon when I moved
it over a tool bar. I could hover the cursor over a line on a part and
the line would not change colors to indicate I was near it. When I
attempt to use smart dimension to size a sketch it takes 20 or more
seconds to acknowledge that I have moved the cursor.
The graphics seem to be OK as I can use the 3D rotate and it rotates as
fast as I can move the mouse so I'm inclined to think it's not a
graphics driver problem.

About 2 weeks ago I reformated and re-installed everything.
SW worked great until a few days ago. Now it's back to doing the same thing.

Any ideas?

Thanks

James

 

Is it just SW, or all apps?
If it is the case, are you sure you are free of spyware?
Do you install or try other apps besides?

 

Run some benchmarks.

Read "XPTC".

 

http://www.scottjbaugh.com/Tips_Tricks/Slowdowns.htm

 

I had a problem with a missing toolbar and other users pointed me to
using Regedit to delete a SolidWorks folder of preferences that not
only got my toolbars back, but sped up SolidWorks a lot. But that is
just the tip of the iceberg.

Mike Tripoli on March 10, put up a long post which every SWks user
should have copied out.

Search this newsgroup for "optimize your system" and Mike's long post
will be at the top. Read it, live it.

Good luck - Bo

 

bo is accurate in his registry hack here. i have been using it over
the last 2 months to get SWx running better. before you do the
registry hack run the SWx Copy Settings Wizard to retrieve the users
settings in SWx. then i edit the registry under the Hkey_current_user
and rename the SWx directory (just in case you need to go back). then
start a session of SWx and close it. then apply the user settings to
SWx. now i have had one problem with this and it was on a user that
had MoldFlow software installed. we had to re-install the MoldFlow
package to get it running again. anyway this will help, but follow
Bo's advice and review the "optimize your system" postings. iQ

 

I'm blushing... ;^)

MT

 

Both Scott and Mike reference blackviper.com. This site is no longer up
AFAIK.

 

I've noticed the same sporadically, even after having utilized the info
in Mike Tripoli's post (although that info helped me speed up Windows XP
a bit). One potential cause for problems is my GeForce card (drivers
not hacked -- yet) which will slow things down once I have opened 4
windows in SolidWorks, but there does seem to be something in
SolidWorks' code that isn't releasing memory as it should. In my case
the problem is consistently solved by either just closing SolidWorks and
restarting it, or at worst by rebooting. If those tactics aren't
helping you then let us know.

'Sporky'

 

Did you ever run SpecAPC? It lists all the OGL features used in the
run.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2005

If you blow away this key (or rename it) then SW will recreate it from the
LM key and you start over with the default settings.

WT

 

ok... what about piping...

Is there a tweak that can give that a good swift kick in the butt?

 

http://www.scottjbaugh.com/Tips_Tricks/Reinstall_Tip.htm

Regards,
Scott

 

The benchmark probably sets some options, so that results will be more
comparable from machine to machine and run to run. The readme for the
benchmark ought to tell what it sets. Perhaps you had inadvertently set one
of those options to a "bad" value that was causing the slowdown. Given your
original description of the symptoms, this seems like a bit of a stretch,
but it's at least a possibility.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"