Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing.... 1

[lyle426]

Hi,
I have recently installed solidworks 2006 and it wont stop crashing indiscriminately. It will crash during an assembly, when creating a feature, or during the drafting mode as well. I cannot see a pattern here myself. This was a fresh install, and all updates were performed prior to installation. Just recently I fully uninstalled the video driver and re-installed the reccomended one from solidworks. I have lowered the hardware acceleration, and disabled write combining on the video card settings. I have also done what this thread (thread559-135741) had suggested and it still keeps crashing. I don't understand why. Could I have some incorrect system settings? Or could my hardware not be functioning correctly? I noticed that when I downloaded the driver for my vid. card it was not certified by WinXP. I also get a fragment from my cursor when I click on the workspace or features...just a little square the size of the cursor display. If anyone knows what could be wrong I would really appreciate the help...this is begining to get very innefficient.

Thanks!!

 

[dogarila]

Some people will disagree with me but from my experience the number of crashes will go down with new SPs. Expect to have stability around SP3. That's how it was with SW03, 04 and 05.

 

[ctopher]

From my own experience, most crashes are due to:
-not installed correctly
-virus software is running when SW is installed
-incorrect hardware
-very little RAM
-no SW training
-problems with server and/or network

SP's will fix bugs and do updates, but these bugs are not usually culprits of crashes.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

 

[Heckler]

Lyle,

Could you give us a run down of your system (video card, driver, ram and OS)

Netshop21 - I would like to disagree with your statement

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get me.

- Woody Allen

 

[smcadman]

Note that SP 0.'s ARE more prone to crashes than SP 1.0 or higher, even on approved cards and systems. That is the nature of the beast, and we could start a whole discussion about pumping out new releases quickly to justify jumping on board the subscription bandwagon... but that's another thread.

Your hardware specs would help greatly, but I will say that 2006 is more of a memory and/or cpu hog than 2005. At home I have a standard Dell desktop PC, and I can run 40 meg files in SW 2005 without any problem, but the same files in 2006 bogs my pc down.

Flores
SW 2005 SP 4.

 

[jt4ward]

I have been crashing quite often as well. I was running 5.0 SP5 and rarely crashed at all. I also did a clean install. I have a Quadro FX500 with the approved driver but am going to run the software opengl to see if that helps. It is really getting annoying. I have been crashing after an array of different commands. I currently doing some surface work and have crashed 3 times in the last couple of hours. I hope somebody comes up with a solution.

Jason Forward
Solidworks 2005 sp3.0

 

[SBaugh]

Have you checked the FAQ's at this forum and done all the maintainence to your computer?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[lyle426]

Hi everyone, here is my info:

Video: ATI Fire GL X2 256t Driver 6.14.10.6521 (SW Reccomended)
Ram: 1 GB RAM non ecc
cpu: P4 3.0 GHz Hyper Threading
OS: Win XP Home
HD: 60 GB IDE Barracuda
Mobo: P4SD-LA ASUS board w AGP x8

Is this ok?

thanks!

 

[SBaugh]

1) Did you first uninstall the old driver and reboot, then reinstall the new driver and reboot again? If not you should do that.

2) XP home is not supported for SW06. It's not say it will not work, but it is not supported and I have had many people call with not being able to install on XP home or get a good install of it on their system... not honestly sure why that is, but it's not supported either.

3) Turn Hyper threading off - It's just a performance hit you probably don't want to take - See bios to shutoff

Please check out the Maintainence FAQ's as you need to perform these routines weekly. Defragging believe it or not helps out tremendously.

faq559-884
faq559-908
faq559-507

faq559-1066

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[MechEng13]

1 GB of ram seems a little on the low side. I was slowing down running a system with 1.5GB using SW 2003. I would up the ram to help stabilize the system.



Alan M. Etzkorn
Reliability Engineer
Wabash National Corp.

http://www.wabashnational.com

 

[lyle426]

Scott,

Thanks for the information, I will give these a try and let everone know if the problem gets resolved. I am sure the video driver is fine, it was completely uninstalled and reinstalled properly. As for the Hyperthreading issue, I was unaware, I'll change it. One more question. How much would ECC ram help? Ive read its supposed to be more stable than non ECC...

Thanks for the help!!

 

[waynewalker]

Lyle,

Did the fixes suggested above help? or Not?

I'm concerned about 1 GB Ram, that's our standard setup here.
Not sure why XP Home won't work well, only diff are supposted to be networking ability.

Many thanks,
Wayne Walker

IS Dept, General Atomics

 

[support69]

XP home works fine, because I use it at home and there are no problems for me. Heck my home PC does not have a certified card but still runs it darn well considering. I still don't recommend not running a Certified card. I am a gamer at home and knew that I was taking a chance with that card with SW.

Regards,

support69

 

[mgms]

I am running SW 2006 Office Professional and COSMOS Advanced Professional SP4.1 and SP4.0 on a Dell 690 dual 3.7Ghz CPU's w/ 4Mb RAM and a NVidia 4500 (512Mb), I desing large assemblyes doing Top-Down 100% parametric models (entire model is over 400Mb of files and top assembly is larger that 50Mb having some complex parts that are oever 55Mb. the system run slow if all components are loaded and experiment some crashes when editing a component on his own window and open the main assebly window and try to do some editing. I experiment problems with the rebuilt of components when using equations to "pull" parameters from the main assembly skeleton sketch and on the rebuilt of circular patterns of components and some complex surfaces, but no probelms with the video driver... Bugs, the software have a lot, but the other alternative is a US$ 20,000 CATIA... for year 3000 SW will be realy SOLID, for now is just trying to be SOLID.

 

[SBaugh]

You should have started a new post on this and referenced this thread instead.



Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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