Solidworks performance?

Your computer is simply... not up to the task. It barely meets absolute minimum system requirements. More than anything it looks as if you'd benefit greatly from more ram. Then an appropriate graphics card.

I agree. Up the RAM to at least 1 GB and replace that video card. I personally like the nVidia line better than ATI, although I had ATI in a laptop for 2 years that worked great - I just didn't have a pretty graphics picture because it didn't have full OpenGL capabilities.

In the meantime, make sure you don't a lot of crap running in the background (check Task Manager for a list of processes running) so you can free up the RAM SolidWorks needs.

Good luck,

Steve O

Around the office we treat 1GB as the bare minimum these days for Solidworks. We aim for 2GB for most systems and 3GB or higher for the heavier use systems.

NVidia has been working way better for us the past while with 2007 than the ATI cards.

And things run much better when HyperThreading is turned off on the Intel chips.

Just a couple of things that so far we've learned here that do make a difference in how fast and how well things run.

I remember doing quite well with a Pentium 166, 300 Mb Ram and a Synergy II graphics card. Oh, well, that was SW 96 when crashes were unusual and tech support was direct to Concord.

We are running a 2.8GHz acceptably for mundane jobs although large assembly work and esp. drawings are done elsewhere. So focus on RAM and graphics card. 2Gb is cheap and well worth it. NVidia seems much more appropriate to me than the Radeons too. Even before doing that set up the 3Gb switch. Even with little RAM it seems to help. And make sure you set your pagefile min and max to at lest 2Gb.

I have an assembly with 23000 components (500 different parts). my computer is p4 3.0Ghz, 1GB RAM, Graphic card: Nvidea FX500 128MB, Solidworks 2006 sp5.0 Change your Graphic card, I already had problems with this (Graphic card: ATI RADEON 9600)

RICARDO ROSSI

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