nurquhar Posted August 16, 2005 Posted August 16, 2005 Does anybody know why AutoCAD 2005 seems to freeze for 10 minutes while loading ?? Help !! If you wait long enough the program will complete loading and works fine with good performace even with very large drawings. The program freezes just after its done the 0-100% load of acadiso.dwt file but before it has painted the command toolbar icons. This is happening on a friends machine that I recently built for him, its got fairly good spec, ie WinXP prof 3.2 gig intel hyperthread cpu 1024k mem raid stipe ATA drives etc. The machine is networked to a broadband internet router. This problem has only started recently and was fine for two months. It also happend on my machine once which has similar setup. Quote
nurquhar Posted August 16, 2005 Author Posted August 16, 2005 Yes. Tired reinstall of AutoCad, its just the same. Quote
CADTutor Posted August 16, 2005 Posted August 16, 2005 The usual cause for this is that AutoCAD is looking for an internet connection but cannot find one - it shouldn't normally be 10 mins but this is often the cause of this sort of thing. Quote
Dommy2Hotty Posted August 16, 2005 Posted August 16, 2005 ... machine that I recently built ... It also happend on my machine once which has similar setup. Well...the common denominator would seem to be.... just kidding...but makes you wonder... Quote
nurquhar Posted August 16, 2005 Author Posted August 16, 2005 The internet connection is permanent via the router so Acad does need access to check soemthing it should be there. However it makes me think are there any win XP or route firewall changes required ? Quote
CADTutor Posted August 16, 2005 Posted August 16, 2005 You will need to make sure that your firewall is allowing AutoCAD access to the internet. Most software firewalls will allow this by default but it's worth checking. Quote
f700es Posted August 16, 2005 Posted August 16, 2005 could it be your dwt file?? What is in you default template file? Is it a big file? Maybe make a completely blank drawing, no nothing and use this as your startup template and see if this makes your start up time faster. Quote
nurquhar Posted August 17, 2005 Author Posted August 17, 2005 I am using the default dwt file as I have recently re-installed Acad. ie no changes have been made to it. Quote
leggy Posted August 25, 2005 Posted August 25, 2005 same problem here. a friend designed the 2d drawing on autcad 2000 and the other guy edited the drawing into 3d wireframe and added materials using autocad 2006. the file size is about 77mb and it takes around 4 minutes to be loaded and it takes around 500mb of memory after it opens. the same load up time on several machine. the worse is when he has a file of 200mb he cant open it on the machines even the one that has 2gb of ram and 8gb of page file, he gets a message of fatal error......violation ..exception, something like that the other problem, the same 77mb drawing copy and paste the entire drawing on the same file so total was 150mb, but he couldnt render it, free memory over flow error occured. that means the drawing is using the whole 2gb of physical ram. so strange wonder if autocad is programmed properly in the area of load and save and dealing with memory. Quote
nurquhar Posted August 26, 2005 Author Posted August 26, 2005 I think you may be experiencing a different "feaure" of Acad. I was just clicking on the Autocad desktop Icon to start the program without opening anything other than the default blank drawing. I then go and make a cup of tea a perhaps a phone call, then come back and start work after its finished drawing the main screen. Quote
websetup Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Yesterday i found the solution. I noticed that after installing Office, Autocad become very slow at starting up. I tested 3 computer with Windows 7 32 and 64 bit and Windows 10 64bit. When you Install Office you are installing a lot of new Fonts in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts. My solution is: go to folder C:\Windows\Fonts and delete all the Fonts (some fonts cannot be deleted because system fonts). I had 1000 Fonts and AutoCad started in 65 seconds. Now i have 75 Fonts and Autocad starts in 20 seconds. I noticed that in Windows 7 32 bit, deleting fonts, Autocad LT 2005 starts in 13 seconds. Quote
ReMark Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 The number of Windows fonts has no bearing on how fast AutoCAD will load. Quote
websetup Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 The number of Windows fonts has no bearing on how fast AutoCAD will load. After deleting fonts you have to restart Windows. In my laptop Lenovo T60 SSD128, 1,5 GB RAM W7PRO64 if i delete fonts Autocad starts much more quickly. I tested it with Windows 7 32 and 64 bits and i have the same result. If i have 1000 Fonts Autocad Starts in more than 1 minute. If i delete Fonts Autocad starts in less than 20 seconds. Quote
Cad64 Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 I would highly recommend NOT deleting all the fonts from your Windows\Fonts directory. If you think fonts are the reason Autocad is taking a long time to start up, check your Autocad\Fonts folder and make sure there are no TTF fonts in there. Autocad doesn't support TTF fonts. Those fonts should be placed in the Windows\Fonts folder. Only SHX fonts should be in the Autocad\Fonts folder. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-Slow-to-launch-hangs-loading-AcDgnLsTrans-dbx.html Quote
Dana W Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 The faster load after restart has more to do with the 1.5 gig of ram being nearly empty after restarting windows. 1.5 gig is seriously on the tiny side and will be a handicap to any program loading fast after the computer has been running for a while and the RAM fills up with trash. AutoCad only loads a path to the windows folder holding the ttf fonts, not the actual font files so there is no connection what so ever between AutoCad loading faster because the windows font count is smaller. Now, if you have copied the windows ttf fonts to the AutoCad font directory and are talking about deleting them out of there, then next time leave them out. Like CAD64 says, that is a nono. Quote
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