IV7 more RAM and Graphics Card demanding than IV6?

[Anonymous]

We have six workstations. Two of them just got upgraded to IV7 SP1, the
other 4 are still
running IV6SP2. All are in Semi-Isolated, Peer-to-Peer network/Project.

In our case, we have a large machine assembly, which we can open on the IV6
workstations.
When trying to open the same file on PC1 (512MB RAM, GeForce2 64MB) with
IV7, it crashes.
Opening the same file on PC2 (1GB RAM, Quadro4 64MB) with IV7, it opens
fine.

Both are Dell Dimension 8200 PC's, have a clean, all updated XP PRO, XP
Office, NAV2k3 and IV7 installation, with the IV recommended Graphics
Drivers and a 1.7/1.8GhZ CPU).

Anyone else notice a slow down with IV7?
What PC Hardware setup do you have?

Thanks for the input!

Peter

peterd@bigskyend.com

[Anonymous]

Peter,

I noticed a slight improvement in certain arrays and a definite improvement in drawing performance in R7. It also loads faster than R6 on my machine. The only drawbacks I have found on R7 is the sketch mode = constraint bug AND having multiple windows open seems to have a performance hit now. Basically if I have a drawing open in the background and I work on the assembly the drawing references the assembly is slow. If I close the drawing the assembly speeds up. It wasn't so obvious in previous releases.

Rich

[Anonymous]

Peter S. Dettmer wrote:
> We have six workstations. Two of them just got upgraded to IV7 SP1, the
> other 4 are still
> running IV6SP2. All are in Semi-Isolated, Peer-to-Peer network/Project.
>
> In our case, we have a large machine assembly, which we can open on the IV6
> workstations.
> When trying to open the same file on PC1 (512MB RAM, GeForce2 64MB) with
> IV7, it crashes.
> Opening the same file on PC2 (1GB RAM, Quadro4 64MB) with IV7, it opens
> fine.
>
> Both are Dell Dimension 8200 PC's, have a clean, all updated XP PRO, XP
> Office, NAV2k3 and IV7 installation, with the IV recommended Graphics
> Drivers and a 1.7/1.8GhZ CPU).
>
> Anyone else notice a slow down with IV7?
> What PC Hardware setup do you have?
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> Peter
>
> peterd@bigskyend.com
>
>

Obvious question, have you run Excel once on all machines? Check the
video drivers anyway. I had been using the 4072 drivers very
successfully with R6, but 4351 drivers work better on my system with R7.

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen

Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
1.5 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.4351 drivers
Dell UltraSharp 19" LCD

[Anonymous]

Autodesk did increase the minimum system requirments with IV7

Here are the new specs from autodesk

Minimum System Requirements

Preferred System Requirements
Advanced Assembly modeling (1000 parts or greater)

a.. Pentium IV, Xeon, or AMD Athlon, 1.8GHz or better Processor
b.. 600 MB Free Hard Drive Space
c.. 1 GB Scratch "Temp" space
d.. 1+ GB RAM
e.. 2.5+ GB Virtual Memory Space
f.. 64+ MB OpenGL Capable Workstation Class Graphics Card
Recommended System Requirements
Small Assembly modeling (100 to 1000 parts)

a.. Pentium III, Pentium IV, Xeon, or AMD Athlon 1GHz or better Processor
b.. 600 MB Free Hard Drive Space
c.. 512 MB Scratch "Temp" space
d.. 512 MB MB RAM
e.. 1 GB Virtual Memory Space
f.. 32+ MB OpenGL Capable Graphics Card

[Anonymous]

My opinion is that those new specs were more of a correction or update from
what were unrealistically low requirements listed for the earlier versions.
Heaven help those running systems near those minimums.

Ed R


"Paul Houlker" <666paulh@rimex.com666> wrote in message
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> Autodesk did increase the minimum system requirments with IV7
>
> Here are the new specs from autodesk
>
> Minimum System Requirements
>
> Preferred System Requirements
> Advanced Assembly modeling (1000 parts or greater)
>
> a.. Pentium IV, Xeon, or AMD Athlon, 1.8GHz or better Processor
> b.. 600 MB Free Hard Drive Space
> c.. 1 GB Scratch "Temp" space
> d.. 1+ GB RAM
> e.. 2.5+ GB Virtual Memory Space
> f.. 64+ MB OpenGL Capable Workstation Class Graphics Card
> Recommended System Requirements
> Small Assembly modeling (100 to 1000 parts)
>
> a.. Pentium III, Pentium IV, Xeon, or AMD Athlon 1GHz or better
Processor
> b.. 600 MB Free Hard Drive Space
> c.. 512 MB Scratch "Temp" space
> d.. 512 MB MB RAM
> e.. 1 GB Virtual Memory Space
> f.. 32+ MB OpenGL Capable Graphics Card
>
>

[Anonymous]

Dont joke about it, I run close to minimum 8^(

[Anonymous]

I agree, both on the new specs and seeing as to how I run below the minimum heaven help me.