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AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

YvonneTas1383 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:16:21 GMT

Recently I have bought a MSI WS60 6QJ, with an Intel Core i7-6700 HQ processor (2.6 Hz), a Nvidia Quadro M2000M graphics card (4 GB), 16 GB Ram and Win 10 Pro. I work with AutoCAD 2017 (Design Suite, Sp1). AutoCAD is slow; my 4 years old HP is quicker...

Are there some special settings that I should know about?

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

pendean — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:35:28 GMT

Which video card is AutoCAD using? All laptops these days have the Intel + the extra you paid for and AutoCAD may be using the wrong one as described here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-uses-the-wrong-graphics-card.html

I notice your laptop also has a very slow 7200rpm HD.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

Darin.Green — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:41:38 GMT

The first issue I can see from your specs is a slow processor (only 2.6Ghz). Depending on the size and content of your drawings will cause lag during pan, zoom, hatch, etc. because the model information needs to be processed over and over again.

If you work on a new drawing, do you notice a performance hit? If not, you should clean up your drawings using purge and audit.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

john.vellek — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:04:20 GMT

Hi @YvonneTas1383,

I am sorry to see that you are having some performance issues with your AutoCAD 2017 on Windows 10.

Are you working on a network(wired-wireless)?

What kind of drawing are you doing (2d - 3d - rendering)?

How large are your files?

Here is an AKN Article that might get you some performance improvements.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

dgorsman — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:55:06 GMT

Adding to that, what are typical drawings? 2D, 3D? Are they being viewed in one of the rendered visual styles, or wireframe?

And stupid question time: has the graphics acceleration inside AutoCAD actually been turned on?

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

YvonneTas1383 — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:02:37 GMT

Hello DGorsman,

Thank you for your answer. Most of the drawings are in 2D and mostly with 1
or 2 Xrefs. I use solid hatchs. My drawing is 900 kb, the Xref 2.1 Mb, so
not that big. And yes, hardware acceleration is on.

So, not real special. I have done some opitmizing in AutoCAD and Windows (
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Optimize-Performance-within-Windows-7-Environments.html),
but I think there must be something else.

I hope you know some other solution.

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Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

YvonneTas1383 — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:00:17 GMT

Hello Pendean,

Thank you for your answer. Good to read about the wrong graphics card, I
will check, and let you know if it solves the problem.

I have replaced the HD with a SSD, so that won't be the problem.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

pendean — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:02:08 GMT

Another test after you confirm AutOCAD is actually using the correct video card but you still see no benefits: turn hardware acceleration OFF.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 slow on MSI W60

john.vellek — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:09:51 GMT

Hi @YvonneTas1383,

While you verify that your graphics card is being utilized properly, can you tell me what file version you save to? Are you saving to 2013? Sometimes saving to a legacy format can cause some issues.