solidworks x64 keeps freezing

I have a realy nasty problem: while working on solidworks 2007 x64 with any
part, assembly, and drawing (even a simple one: for example 1 feature, no
external references....) solidworks hangs up for about 60 to 70 percent of
the time!! preventing me from doing anything else on that program. at those
times when solidworks hangs up the task manager reports on 50% SLDWRKS
process activity (full activity because of the dual core spec). as soon as
the process finishess its high activity rate, solidworks gives me another
few seconds of grace untill it freezes again - and so on and
on...........untill finally at some point there is an unrecoverable freeze
with an "C++ Library Runtime error", at this point the only thing left is to
kill SW process and restart.

This problem persists on my workstation since Windows XP x64 SP1 untill
today with Windows XP x64 SP2 installed together with the SW approved 84.26
nForce driver for my quadro FX 1500 card. I've tried to kill other
unnecessery programs while on SW but this didnt help. I've also noticed that
every time SW freezes temporarly then one of my system fans starts to work
realy heavily and fast (i think it is the GC fan, but im not absolutly sure
about that - its defenitly not the main processors fan). turning RealView
functionality on SW off doesnt seem to help either.
My system specs are:
Athlon X2 4600 with 2GB RAM, virtual memory set to 4GB.

I would love to hear any sugesstions on how to solve this. (anyone who
stumbled on such an issue is also invited to share his/her expiriance)

Thanks,
Gil

 

thoght i should share with you guys my progress with this issue:

I'm not realy sure.........but.......since i've turned off the windows
search service (indexing service), SW works o.k. untill now. So maybe
(hopefuly) i finally found what was causing this.....fingers crossed.

I will report in the following days if this fix is definitly the solution to
this.

Cheers,
Gil

 

Gil:

I have the same issue. I will try turning off the search feature.

I also loaded SW with the software OpenGL option and that solved all
my problems.
Except of course that I paid a lot of good money for a hardware
accelerated graphics card that is now essentially tuned off.
The point is the te issue is isolated to openGL hardware acceleration
somehow.

Bart Hays
SW 2007 sp1.1
XI dual Athlon duo 64
nvidia Quadro FX 1500
4 GB Ram
Win Xp 64