Ladies and gentlemen, my configuration is " wandering " we could say when I open " big " assemblies on SW, yet the software is very slow. No problems with small designs, but as soon as I start to have people, the software becomes slower and slower. And yet, my pc (with the image) doesn't suffer a bit. My GPU is not " certified " but well recognized by the software, and if the problem came from there the CPU would be overloaded in its place if I'm not mistaken. So, any idea? A setting can allow Solidworks to be more " greedy "?
Version 2024SP01, but the problem was already present in V2022, V2023 so I think independent of the version.
Only when we use the new version of SW on the cloud should the problem be solved. Because SW uses a different technology than the one related to Windows Indeed, the code of the stand alone version is very old and has never been rewritten (too complicated while the integration of new features must already be sporty).
Hello; You can try the @Sylk proposals here (well further down in the discussion):
(it seems to me that other settings are proposed in another discussion but no way to get my hands on them...)
But as @Zozo_mp says, I don't think it improves opening times much. Especially since from what I can see from your screenshot, your graphics card and memory capacity do not seem to me to be suitable for optimal use of Solidworks.
Quite @FUZ3D . So if @romain_becdelievre has a competition PC with a 36-core CPU, its processor doesn't do anything but it slows. The processors recommended for SW are those with the least possible core having the highest possible frequency (Visiativ recommends Intel Core i7- 13700K 16C processor at the moment: that's already 15 cores too many... Weird thing too they stopped offering Xeon owners to go for the i7 for the general public which seems to support ECC RAM on the last generations)
It would mean that beyond the very aging architecture if I disable multithreading on my i7 2600k which runs at 4.5Ghz, with its 4 threads the cpu is better than a more recent one at 16 core?
Not said @Sylk because the i7 13700K has 8 fast cores and 8 " economic " cores and it goes up to 5.4 GHz. And between an old core and a recent core, the power is likely to be higher on the recent core.
According to this bench: Xeon w5-3425 vs Core i7-13700K [3-Benchmark Showdown] the i7 blows up the Xeon: 1.5 x faster in single-core (while being much cheaper: 1350€ for the Xeon against 450€ for the i7). Strangely enough, it doesn't really show up on the prices at Vistativ: their HPZ2 station is at 2,590.00 where we bought a Z4 in December 2021 for €2276
The plus of the i7 K is that they are also overclockable so if the cooling system is optimized you should be able to boost the machine by 10-15% (if the motherboard allows overclocking, which is not safe on pro PCs).
Yes, the base frame rate of my 2600k is 3.8GHz, which I had pushed to 5.4GHz, in noctual air cooling, quite stable, but not in gaming, so I had fiddled to arrive at the best compromise, 4.5GHz stock, without exceeding 1.22V, while keeping the idle at 1.6GHz (sometimes set to less than 1GHz but it doesn't like bcp).
