Hi everyone. I've been having problems with my drawing files opening very slowly. I recently set up a file that has nothing in it except for general notes in MTEXT format just to use as a test file. The file is a little less than 3MB. I have purged the file out and deleted all except 2 annotation scales. The font is ROMANS. On my machine it is taking about 38 seconds to open from click to active crosshairs. I have a friend whom I've emailed the file to and he is opening in about a "second". (Which I would expect)
I have recently upgraded my system to 64 bit to try and resolve the slow open and performance, but have not seen a noticible improvement. I was hoping someone could take a look and see if there are any hardware issues that stand out that should be replaced. AutoCAD C3D R13 is loaded on my C: drive along with my projects.
Win 7 Pro 64 bit SP1
MSI 870A-G54 Motherboard
AMD Athlon II X4 645 @ 3.10 GHz
8 GB DDR3, 1333 RAM
WD 1TB Caviar Black SATA 3, 64 MB buff, 7200rpm
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ (512-P3-N873-RX) GDDR3, 2200MHz, 512MB, PCIe 2.0 x16
(2) 23in HP 2311x monitors @ 1620x1080
Anti-virus is turned off
Hardware acceleration on or off makes no difference
Wthin 5 seconds the file is open and looks like it's ready to go, then the screen (and crosshairs) blink and, the drawing comes back but it just sits there with the windows circle of death spining for the next 25 seconds. If you click on the screen during this time AutoCAD goes ghost white and says Not Responding at the top.
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....OK.... no change.
Do you have printers mapped that are no longer on your network?
Good guess, but unfortunately no.
Thanks I figured it out!
I noticed the last time I opened it up that the Prospector window was going blank while it was trying to open. I got to looking and I had about 12 point groups that wern't linked to anything. (Yellow shield with explanation point) I deleted them and poof! it opens up like it should!
Thanks everyone.
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