I like Win 7 (64 bit). Don't know if you saw my post about 2009 SP5 but I'm finding 2009 SP 4.1 is fast, SP 5.1 is very slow. I have no idea why.
Frank
Saw that. For my test I rant 4.1 alone. Then 5.1 alone. I just reinstalled 4.1 again and am going to try to keep them both so I can have speed for modeling (4.1) but use 5.1 for FEA. We'll see if that works.
Frank
Ok so check this out. I have SW 4.1 and SW 5.1 on the computer I desribed above as well as my work laptop that (Dell Precision m4400, 3 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8Gb ram, NVidia... very fast). In both cases, the computers are perfect with 4.1 and crippled with 5.1 (64 bit).
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I can't turn turn the network off, well at least not for very long, because my installation uses a remote licese. I should have mentioned that.
That said, when I do turn it off and on SW gives me that "Close program or wait for response" window. Why that is I don't know.
It does seam though...
You are correct on the model, sorry for the typo.
I have the GForce GT 130M card. The driver version is 186.44.
The device manager lists Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 @ 2 GHz 4 times. Not sure if that is the 2 duos or not.
I had 2009 of an earlier service pack for a short while and the computer...
I have SW 2009 SP5 on an HP PDX18T, Centrino 2 (4 CPU's), 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM, 64 Bit Win 7, Nvidia card, yada yada...
Solidworks will sit there with the little circle spinning (Computer thinking) with little to no CPU usage and only say 2 gigs or so of RAM used up every time I do things like...
