2007 slow/jerky on Pentium M Labtop

[Paul1969]

I just installed SW Office 2007 on my 1.83Ghz Pentium M laptop with 1GB RAM. The entire program runs slow, ie opening any file types takes forever. Even with very simple parts. When you try to rotate a part the Model movement is very jerky. For example if you are trying to rotate a model from front to back it will jerk about half way, stop for 10-15 seconds and then jerk to the back view. I previously had Office 2006 installed and it worked fine. Any ideas?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Each new version of SolidWorks (and most other programs) usually require more resources than the previous version.

Did you convert all the SW06 files to SW07 before[/b] opening in SW07?

Have you upgraded the video card driver for SW07?

Do you have an approved video card for SW07?

Do you have the SW search index function enabled? If you do, disable it. It is a resource hog and is next to useless anyway.

 

[SBaugh]

I assume you mean the M90 or something... like a Dell M model laptop.

Check to make sure that the VC drivers are using the correct version that is supported by SW. You can find the drivers under Dell is tha Mfg. THis sounds like a Grpahics card/driver issue.

Reegards,



Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[ElectroMatt]

I think he's referring to the Mobile Pentium chip used in low-power-consumption laptops. I doubt that they have the computing power to match that of a full-on desktop processor, much less a workstation-class machine. I'm running AutoCad on a 1.5ghz Pentium M laptop and it slows to a crawl sometimes. I can only imagine what Solidworks would be like.

I think it's the machine, unfortunately. The mobile (endurance) laptops don't feature very high-performance video cards.

Matt
Electro Industries, Inc.

 

[JMirisola]

SW '06 worked fine on my old laptop as well but it couldn't handle '07. The wrong OS (XP Home vs. Pro) was just one problem. Wrong video card and not enough RAM were a couple of the others.
I'm pretty sure that you were lucky with '06 running on your machine. Your processor just wasn't designed with something as intense as SW in mind, nor was the video card that probably came with your machine.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M