I have recently upgraded from a lap top to a custom desktop that i just had built. I am still having trouble with the drawings rendering extremely slow when you switch layout take or try to orbit in 3D. I use AutoCAD 2011 civil 3D. It seems to never use more than 1.5 GB of ram. Is there something i can configure to speed up this process? This computer should be able to handle ANYTHING!!!
Computer specs:
Windows 7 64bit Ultimate
ASUS Rampage III Black Edition LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series+ Turbulence II (PC3 12800)
Intel Core i7-980 Nehalem 3.33GHz 6x256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache 1366 130W 6-core Processor
256 GB Solid State Drive
2 ea 1 TB High Speed Hard Drives in RAID
2GB ATI FirePro V7900 with 256-bit GDDR5
1) Install latest videocard driver from Autodesk website.
2) Make sure that hardware acceleration is turned on. To check go to Tools\Options\System\Performance Settings\Manual Tune.