Help..PC Slow...Need Benchmark Test for my 2010

[Currahee]

Hey guys...ever since I went from 2007 to 2010 my pc is running slow as crap when I am solid modeling (not rendering....God help me if I was). My task manager is telling me I am only using 1 gig of the 4 gigs of memory I have installed. So, I am thinking maybe it is my video performance that is slowing me down.

Does anyone have any suggestions or know where to find a benchmark test so I can isolate this problem.

Has anyone else had this problem with 2010?

[todouble22]

BDesign, This is a link to a book from an old professor of mine Dan Abbott, the man is a genius, it has a script file to perform bench tests. DO A GOOGLE SEARCH FOR BENCH TEST SCRIPT AND DAN ABBOTT
I'll try to find the file if this is something that might work for you?

[ReMark]

You're the second person I have encountered that complained of slow performance with 2010. Then again there were lots of similar complaints with 2009 too. My guess is that most of them were hardware related. Only a guess though.

[Currahee]

You're the second person I have encountered that complained of slow performance with 2010. Then again there were lots of similar complaints with 2009 too. My guess is that most of them were hardware related. Only a guess though.

The funny thing is I can pull up the same drawing in 07 and it runs fine.

[ReMark]

And the other person could pull up their same drawing in 08 and it ran fine. Do I see a trend here?

[Tankman]

And the other person could pull up their same drawing in 08 and it ran fine. Do I see a trend here?

Sounds like there is a trend, newer versions of AutoCAD run slower.
Better hardware spec's seem to be the answer of the day.

Video, memory, faster hard drives, all in order!

'07 and earlier run fine on my older workstations and laptops.
Luckily, I only "dabble" in 2D, plan and elevation views.
I shutter to think of 3D and rendering. New equipment would perhaps be the order of the day.

[Cad64]

Have you installed the 2010 Update 1? I used to think 2010 was slow also, until I installed the update. It seems to run much smoother now.

[Currahee]

Have you installed the 2010 Update 1? I used to think 2010 was slow also, until I installed the update. It seems to run much smoother now.

Yep...it installed with my initial installation

[Currahee]

Sounds like there is a trend, newer versions of AutoCAD run slower.
Better hardware spec's seem to be the answer of the day.

Video, memory, faster hard drives, all in order!

'07 and earlier run fine on my older workstations and laptops.
Luckily, I only "dabble" in 2D, plan and elevation views.
I shutter to think of 3D and rendering. New equipment would perhaps be the order of the day.

I built my CAD station only a year ago with a dual-core CPU and as much memory as the 32 bit system would allow and a "fair" (in CAD standards) video card w/512 memory

[Tankman]

BDesign your workstation sounds excellent. I use 'bout the same under M$ Windows XP Pro. Runs '05 & '07 and never misses a beat.

In these forums as well as others, I read the same, "Slow, newer releases of AutoCAD." Perhaps too much built in, too much that we may never use.

As mentioned earlier, I'm lucky using only 2D. I don't need 3D or rendering.
Perhaps that's the reason I don't need to upgrade equipment or AutoCAD.