Since I have been working here, for the most part I have been a "one man show" in the design room. We used to have a second designer here that is no longer with us. While he was working here we upgraded both SW computers with identical custom built machines.
Since we had a nice computer sitting there collecting dust, my boss asked me if I wanted to take it home to do some work from home in my spare time. I agreed.
Last week while I was out of work with a back injury, I spent a lot of time behind this system doing work from home. The system performed almost identical to my system at work (which it should), until I got to doing drawings. Drawings run like a dog on this machine. EVERYTHING drawing related seemed significantly slower, such as selecting geometry to invoking commands. But the most significant slowdown that I observed was when I had multiple drawings open (only 4 which I do regularly) and ctrl-tabbing between them. It takes like 5-10 seconds to switch to the next drawing. I feel sure it is related to the general slowdown that I am observing.
These were not super complex drawings. They were semi-busy with several sections, details, and lots of dimensions. But still just single sheet, single part drawings about 1-3MB in size. I even tried opening some simple drawings. Though a little faster, they were still way, way too slow compared to my identical system at work.
P4-540 800MHz 3.2GHz 1MB CACHE HyperThread
2GB 533MHZ DDR2 PC2-4200 DIMM Win XP Pro (all updates) nVidia Quadro 1300 (running 71.84 which is also same as work)Unless I've overlooked something, everything is set-up pretty much like my work PC. I am at a loss as to what may be causing this slowdown on drawings. Anyone got any clues as to what it could be?