Hello, I'm experiencing big slowdowns on solidworks at the moment... I process 3D scans on it and the software keeps crashing.
I have an intel xeon E-2146G and an nvidia quadro p2000 graphics card with 5 GB of graphics ram as well as 32 GB of DDR4 RAM... I thought I saw that solidworks worked better in single core so would it be better to limit my processor to a single core ?
Hello
This makes no sense since most of the time SW only works on one core anyway.
In addition, as he does a lot of Swap disk, it won't change anything.
SW is multi-core only for a very limited number of functions such as loading PART and ASM.
Multi-core is only used for simulation and even then it uses a lot of RAM.
The graphics card is never used at more than 5% except for image rendering which is a separate non-solidworks program (from the point of view of the code) where it works with four buckets per core (of memory). I had written an article on this subject a few years ago and I would have to find it again.
For the record, any program must be designed for multicore for Windows to activate the processors correctly.
Kind regards
Good evening
I found the article I wrote and which is a bit dated: but which basically remains valid for SW because very few programs use multi-threading as indicated in the previous post.
Note that for the realistic rendering, depending on the version you use, the programs are very different (SW then MODO701 in 2011 to 2017 then Bunkspped currently.)
Kind regards
Just to complete, SW uses multi-core for the drawings.
Thank you very much for your answers, they were a great help to me