We recently moved from Inventor 2010 to 2013. Since then we have been having alot of lag problems. One major problem we have found that is giving us lag is our RAM usage. Inventor continually steals more and more ram until its starts to lag out. When I open a large assembly inventor goes from useing 1.2 GB to 4 GB of ram. When I close the assembly the RAM usage stays at 4 GB. If I open another assembly it just builds onto that and can go up to 6 GB before it starts lagging badly. Closing inventor dumps the physical memory. Anyone have any ideas?
System:
windows enterprise (no service pack) 7-64 bit
intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU (2 processors)
9 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 graphics card
All PS and updates installed?
Next - you'll have to go to Application options - File tab, and clean out the Enable Quick File Open option.
Greg
stregarg:
Yes all updates have been installed. I've tried unchecking the "enamble quick file open" and it has no effect.
Hmm, that's strange. Inventor did have problems with dumping memory, but it was fixed with SPs.
And on 20 computers and 4 different systems, it does work for ok at my place. Sometimes it does need some time to release all of the memory (with big assy, up to 20 sec), but it does. Did you try to restart Inventor? For further investigation, i have no idea...maybe somebody more experienced can help.
Sorry.
Greg
when I close inventor, it does dump all the physical memory. but to make inventor run, I would have to restart 30 times a day.
through the task manager, I choose to run the process as administrator. Once this was active and I restarted Inventor, the RAM useage dropped dramatically, it started dumping memory, and load times have shortened greatly. So maybe there is some rights problems it's encountering i'm not sure. Running as administrator fixes the inital problems but i doubt it is the original cause of the problem. It also causes some other projects file load problems.
Still working on solving the problems.
Thanks for you help,
For inventor to work properly, you have to run it as administrator.... or did i miss something in past 5 years?
Well, at least now you know where the problem might be.
Good luck!
Greg
As it turns out, Autodesk does not recommend running inventor as administrator. It can evidently cause connectivity issues which is what we were seeing. As administrator, the program runs perfect except for it can not locate our template files on a network drive (some workstation can see it, others can't). Autodesk says that it has something to do with our "group policy". This does make some sense. However, our group policy has full rights. so we should not be seeing any "network rights" issues. So running as adminstrator is not the solution, why are we seeing rights issues if we have full rights? any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
-Also, when we run inventor as "administrator" and the program runs smoothly, we are still seeing a slow memory leak. It takes alot longer but the RAM usage still climbs.
Have you found a solution to this problem yet as my co-workers and I are experiencing the same issue.