Slow PC

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so far I haven't had a problem with my PC with SW14? When I moved on to the complex assemblies, it started to slow down in an inexplanatory way. 

I have an intel core I7 4510, 2 ghz to 2.6 ghz (64bits)

12 GB RAM

Windows 8

NVIDIA GFORCE EXPERIENCE graphics

Help please!

 

Thank you

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Hello

Is it the SP5 installed?

Is the graphics driver really the one recommended by SolidWorks? See here:

http://www.solidworks.fr/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

 

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excuse me .PL what is SP5?

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Look in the help by clicking on ? Then about SOLIDWORKS

This is the 2nd line

SP is the updates

SP1,2, 3, 4 and 5 in general

Answer
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SP0.0

 

Is it serious, doctor?!

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Yes, the versions before the SP2 or 3 version have a lot more bugs!

You have to log in here to download the SP5:

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/downloads.htm

 

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Hello

 

We have the same problem of slowness on one of our PCs when we wanted to go from 2014 to 2015 or 2016.

We have a GEFORCE on this one, compared to the QUADRO cards on the others. We don't know for sure but it could come from a graphics card not adapted for Solidworks.

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hello, it was during the change of version that the problems appeared, or during the creation of complex assembly???

Because if it's the change of version, we can think of a software problem but if it's the creation of the assembly, it may be that your method is not the best.

Kind regards 

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Watch this video for a first draft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwBe44GiZg

 

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Training in the management of large complex assembly assemblies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ai7iJNYQMI

 

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Another training course in the management of large assemblies 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PsEmw9qh0

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It may be that it is a memory management problem with very complex objects and scenes , I had the case with assemblies of more than 50,000 complex objects where the performance collapsed because the recalculations in memory become huge (the memory is in this case partitioned into thousands of blocks which occupies the processor in very long recalculations and checks) I solved the problem with faster memory and a "pross" with more cores and faster in the same machine, balance about 35% faster, I didn't change my Quadro graphics card.

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Hello

still bothered by the slowness of the PC?

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Hello

 

I wanted to know if you were still bothered by slowness because one of the users of my company has had serious slowdowns since the update in 2016 SP2. and those despite a configuration similar to yours.

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Hello

 

I'm coming back to this subject but not having had an answer, I thought I should post the solution that our support managed to find.

 

the "emulate openGL functions" option was checked in tools/options/performance. The software works fine by unchecking this option.
If the box is checked automatically, you must uninstall the current graphics card driver and install the certified version.

 Hoping you also find what is slowing down your SolidWorks.

 

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@Sergio: The 2016 SP3 version has been released and fixes many bugs. I advise you to install it on all workstations as soon as possible.

And indeed, as I had indicated in the best answer:

Is the graphics driver really the one recommended by SolidWorks? See here:

http://www.solidworks.fr/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

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