Speed up autocad

[OMEGA-ThundeR]

Hello,

I get very frustrated by the slowness of the pc when zooming in and out when the Xref or inserted file is to large (a image or a drawing).

When zoomed in it goes "normal", but when you zoom out or try to pan it goes way to slow for my comfort.

Are there settings that i can change to speed up this process ? I work with lots of image files as an xref, and 1 is do-able, but if you got a few of them in a drawing it gets kinda annoying.

The PC is an Q6600 @ stock with a Quadro FX1700, but i am not impressed by its performance.

[rkent]

VTENABLE set to 0 perhaps will help

[hotrodz0321]

IMAGEQUALITY = draft......however you have to remember to set it back to High before you plot in order to get a high quality image plot....

[ReMark]

Have you tinkered with Performance Tuning at all?

How much physical RAM is installed?

What OS are you running and what version?

What other programs are currently running in the background?

How fast is your hard drive?

There are many factors that can affect the performance of your computer.

Have you purged your drawing?

Have you checked for the presence of a large amount of unregistered applications in your drawing (a.k.a. - regapps)?

[OMEGA-ThundeR]

- Windows XP PRO SP3 32Bit
- 3gb of DDR2
- SATA2 Hardrive (dunno what type/cache)
- No background apps that take up space, performance is the same on the other computers (They are HP Workstations)
- I haven't "tweaked" anything, and even if i have to i dunno what options te set off and still have enough functionality.
- Drawings are loaded from a netwerk drive, and that connection is pretty slow. But i do not see how the drive speed can have anything to do with it since if i pull the network cable its still as slow (so it doesn't write/read from the drive when i work in the drawing) (like in a case of network failure).
- The drawings are clean where i work in, so no special apps. The only thing that is loaded when opening an new drawing file is a layer style with our most used layers. Purging doesn't help.

"IMAGEQUALITY = draft" i tried, and it helped a bit when i try it at home (with an by specs i would say a way more worse computer than i use at work (E2140 @ 2.4gh with 2gb ram and a ATI 3850 with 5 high resolution pictures for testing).

"VTENABLE set to 0 perhaps will help" Doesn't give me any performance boost at home, no noticeable improvement anyway (we use 2009 at work, i use 2008 at home).

[ReMark]

Maybe its the number of image files you work with. Anyway to isolate the ones that aren't immediately important to what you are doing?

[OMEGA-ThundeR]

Thats not an option although it are several standalone images in some cases, and otherwise its only 1 but very large (merged some images together from google map ) image.

I also installed the latest Quadro drivers and the autocad "performance" driver, but it doesn't give any boost at all (on the image scale as far as i can see).

[ReMark]

What is the max physical RAM limitation on your computer? 4GB?

[J&SMasonry]

I'm having considerable speed issues as well with AutoCAD 2007. It takes a long time to open up AutoCAD, and every time I access a menu option to do anything, even if there is nothing in model space, it pauses for 8-10 seconds before I can do anything. This makes using the program a chore. I had an older PC which used the same program and had no issues of this sort.

My computer is a brand new PC laptop with the following specs:

CPU: Duo T9400
Display: 15.4" WSXGA+
ODD: DVD Sup MTI
HD: 500 GB
Memory: 4 GB
OS Windows XP

Any suggestions? Would an AutoCAD reinstall be helpful? Or is there a more insidious cause, or a setting that I can turn off?

[ReMark]

Welcome to CADTutor J&S.

For future reference. It is always adviseable to start a new thread as opposed to tacking a question onto the thread someone else has started. This avoids hijacking the thread even though the problems may appear to be similar. It also makes it easier for people to follow the conversation as it progresses. I may elect to continue answering the original question while someone else elects to help you. All the responses get mixed though. See what I'm getting at? It is just a friendly suggestion. We welcome you to CT and encourage your continued involvement.

Now regarding your question. The first thing that comes to mind is the fact you are using XP (which version by the way?) and you have 4GB RAM installed. I think you might benefit from a change to your boot.ini file. But before we go there, have you installed all the service packs for 2007?