SW crashing with large assy's 2

[PDMAdmin]

Our entire user base is experiencing a problem that only seems to be getting worse as our project progresses. The larger our assemblies become, the more often SolidWorks crashes when we try to do basic things, like save the assembly files and check them into the vault. We have been unable to check the top-level assembly file into the vault for several weeks because SW consistently crashes.

Here is what we have done so far to try and prevent the crashes:

Local Settings / Temp directory is emptied out each day through a logon script.

I have tried a Repair as well as an uninstall/reinstall on both SW and PDMW. Neither of these actions improved the situation.

Both hard drives on my machine have been defrag'ed within the last week.

RAM, processor speed and hard drive space are not the issue. I have 2 GB RAM (plus a 4095 MB swapfile -- the max allowed under Win2k), a 2.80 GHz Pentium 4 and plenty of free space on the hard drive.

Have I missed something in attempting to pinpoint the cause of these crashes? Any advice/suggestions are always appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[PDMAdmin]

A little follow-up... our VAR has informed us that if we upgrade to PDMW2005 but keep our SW version at 2004, that would also help us to alleviate the memory issues we have been having. SolidWorks has said they will fully support such a setup. (Just don't try to use PDMW2004 with SW2005, though.)