When you say that Solidworks is very fast at the IUT, is it on the same PC or on a PC at the IUT?
If 2 different PCs, look on this side if something could correspond to your problem, especially the box "Minimize or close graphics windows" where it talks about a game graphics card ...
If on the same PC, it may be more the "Place the log file on your local hard drive" box that you should look at...
And if it's not as slow after a PC restart, you may have to go through a cleaning of the Windows temporary folders.
Slowness may be perceived if your pc is more than 3-4 years old:
- control the temperature of your processor, if it is abnormal change the thermal paste.
For having struggled for a year to find out why my pc was lagging (for video games among other things :p ), I had indeed my i7 temperature at 90-100° where it should have been at 50° after changing the cooling system.
What I see that can be a problem is, as usual, the graphics card. A Geforce RTX 2060 may be a good card for gaming, but it's not made for CAD, so you have to use the Intel chipset built into the motherboard (you have to juggle with NVidia's config panel to tell it to use one card or the other depending on the software).
Look at the automatic save options, if it's too frequent (15-30min is already not bad), the machine pauses for the time it takes.
Between us I don't see how solidWorks could heat up a processor since in 90° of the time the CPU is only used at 5 to 10%.
Only the simulation or the rendering a little heavy (and the GPU for rendering) excites the bytes a little.
You would have to look at the actual CPU activity, as well as the active programs. Have you used a utility like Speccy that will give you the CPU temperature.
On the other hand, a problem to put a simple rating leaves me stunned.
All these Gamer-style PCs (for a bit of DIY or overclocked) are frequently mentioned here and it seems that they are a recurring source of PB.
As far as I know, the RTX 3000 series won't be released for several months. How can the recommended minimum be a card that is not yet sold?
For my part, Solidworks 2020 with a GTX 1080, all display/quality options to the maximum, does not suffer from any graphical slowdown.
It lacks a bit of responsiveness for opening/editing functions or even to open the SW preferences window, maybe because of my i7 2600k a bit aging or DDR3, but no problems related to the display observed so far.
Hi everyone, First of all, thank you all for helping me:)
Sylk: On the power management side, I removed the standby from my SSD from the beginning, so it can't be that. Indeed if you run with a GTX 1080 I don't see where the problem is with my card.
yannick.petit: I had this checkbox, we'll see if it doesn't improve my problem. Thank you very much.
In the end, if solidworks recommends the Quadros, it's because the Geforce are not?
Well, I can't install the Studio driver, it tells me it's impossible. Since I unchecked the box that yannick petit advised me to uncheck earlier, SW behaves better in MEP. There are still some slownesses but it's much better.
Good news if there is improvement. However, there is no reason why you can't install the Studio drivers. Maybe it's not the version compatible with your machine.
