autocad 2013 freezing with attached image

[scoo9]

hello all,, hope all is well. I've got a issue with working with images. I draw furniture full scale and sometimes it necessary to hard draw and scan the drawing and then attached the image in autocad and trace over the image in AutoCAD 2013. everything is fine until I attach the image, then it freezes with every move that I try to make. The images are around 700 kbs in size. Is there anything I can do or change some kind of setting?? btw. version 2004 doesn't have this problem.

I'm running windows 7 pro
Dell XPS M1710
4 gb memory

any help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Scoot

[SLW210]

What graphics card and driver? 32-bit or 64-bit?

That was an expensive and powerful gaming computer when it came out in '05 or '06, but AutoCAD 2013 might not like it though.

[scoo9]

Hey,, thanks for the reply SLW210. I'm at work at the moment and will let you know the exact type of graphics card I have but I do know it's a 32 bit. Yes, I'm at work right now using AutoCAD 2004 LT and it doesn't have a problem working with the images. I really like the new AutoCAD format and the new abilities, hate to go back to the older versions tho.. but I will if necessary, of course.

and FYI.. if this matters? when you look in the computer properties and review the base scores the graphic card is normally the lowest and mine is 4.2. I've seen others post over 5.0 using this same machine.

thanks
Scoot