Optimize Solidworks with Windows 7

[dklarz]

I'm sure this question has been asked before but if I can be directed to the right place I'd appreciate it. What's the best way to optimize Solidworks 2010 with Windows 7? I have a HP Pavilion with an Athlon II X4 635 Processor, 2900 Mhz, Quad Core, 10 GIG Ram, Western Digital 1T Green, nVidia Quadro FX-1800. It seems the hardware is appropriate (except for maybe the AMD - I'm an Intel fan myself) but I seem to creep along after a period of time. Other times Solidworks will stop working altogether and give me the dreaded "Solidworks is not responding..." message. Sometimes I will get a dialog that tells me that Solidworks has detected low resources and that I should shutdown some programs. I usually have Internet open for email and calendar and always have Excel open. Other than that I'm just not running much. Any suggestions that will help my performance?

 

[SnowCrash]

Unless you have W7-64 bit you do not get the benefit of the10G memory.
Also check faq559-1094


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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 2.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

 

[SBaugh]

Check out the web page for the SW World 2011 Presentations:
Optimizing Computer systems for Solidworks

This is one I found to be really interesting. towards the end of the presentation it does show some settings to set in Win7 to help with performance.

Maximizing Solidworks Performance

I hope this helps,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
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"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

faq731-376

 

[JMirisola]

This is on the SolidWorks website:

http://www.solidworks.com/TIPS_windows7_home

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