Solidworks 2005 Crashes

I have a Athlon 1.4 computer with 1 Gb of RAM and a new FireGL T2-128
Video Card. When I run Solidworks 2005 creating parts and small
assemblies, I have no problems with the program crashing but when I
load large assemblies and begin rotating them the whole computer
freezes. Does anyone think it could be a video card problem or RAM
problem. I have installed and uninstalled every know driver for the
video card. I have been running Windows 2000 for the past 3 years and
maybe I thought a new install of Windows 2000 might get all the old
crap out.

Thanks

 

Is your graphic driver on the SW approved list?

Have you set the "Use Software OpenGL" and then tried to see if it
still locked up? If this stops the lockups it is driver/graphics card
related.

 

I would think it is graphic card driver issue. What driver version are you
using? Another thing to ask since you have the same card I do, is, is the
RealView graphic enabled? If not, you have an old bad driver. I have
basically the same machine except for OS (I use XP).


Mr. Pickles

 

Yes I did put the option for "Use Software OpenGL" and I have no
problems, but then I figure why use the FireGL card if I can't use the
full potentional of it.

 

I have loaded and de-loaded every driver I could and it still does the
same thing. I can work with only small files, couple of parts in an
assembly but anything more it locks up. I used to have a nvidia card
in it but that is uninstalled, including using the program "Nasty file
remover" just to make sure that was not in there.

 

Are you using this "SW Certified" driver (or a regular driver)?

http://www.ati.com/support/products/workstation/fireglt2/win2k/fireglt2win2kcertifieddrivers.html


Mr. Pickles

 

I'm not suggesting you run in Software OGL, just use it for testing. If that
fixes your problem you have a graphics card or driver problem. So either the
card is bad or the driver.

 

The FireGL cards were historically unstable. They started out great, but
seemed to get worse with each succesive version of Solidworks. I have
had several of them. But no longer have any of them in SW machines.
Unfortunately, I doubt the newer ati versions are any better.

ca

 

I am running an ATI FireGL X2 AGP Pro w/256MB memory and it runs pretty
well. Maybe your experience was with older versions.

WT