topic Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command. in AutoCAD Forum

Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

jamieq — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:33:20 GMT

This is something that has been driving me absolutely crazy. I started at a new company on a laptop, and I got a lag/delay of about 3 seconds every time I used the COPYCLIP command. After a month I requested a desktop, and the lag/delay went away. Everything was peachy for a year and a half until my computer wouldn't turn on. IT said my SSD was the issue, so they replaced it, installed Win 10 fresh, and sent it back to me. I reinstalled AutoCAD 2019 and all my drivers. Now, I'm getting a lag/delay again, on the exact same computer. I have tried everything I can find online, and that I can think of, and I can't make it go away. I've gotten AutoCAD entirely up to date (same issue happens with 2021, btw), installed the latest Autodesk certified driver for my video card, set memory settings in Windows, deleted layer filters from my drawings, reset scale lists, etc, etc, etc. I have run out of ideas, and I am at my wit's end. I use the COPYCLIP command at least 150 times a day, and after two months of this lag/delay, I am ready to bash my computer with a sledgehammer and ask for a new one.

So I'm hoping someone here has a solution I haven't tried, that will actually work. Because I don't think my employer will be too happy with me if I break company property.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

Patchy — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:02:53 GMT

Let's see one of the .dwg before putting the blame on the desktop.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

jamieq — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:10:47 GMT

Sure. It is literally any drawing. I've attached one I just made. I started a brand new drawing, no template. Drew a 3' x 3' rectangle, copied it (with the COPY command) a bunch of times. Then I selected them all and ran COPYCLIP, and got a 3 second delay. Now, admittedly, this doesn't happen every single time. But it happens most times, and I can't find any rhyme of reason why or when it happens. I can generally replicate the delay by running COPYCLIP right after opening a drawing, but even then sometimes it'll work fine the first time, and then delay the next five. Or sometimes it'll delay the first time, then work the next five, then delay the next twenty times. I just can't figure it out, and that's part of what's so infuriating about it, the randomness.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

Patchy — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:30:43 GMT

The drawing is pretty clean, I purged the Regapp, but the speed of copy clip is as fast as without purge.

Replace the RAM, it doesn't hurt to try before smashing the PC.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

jamieq — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:32:21 GMT

Yup. It's not a drawing issue. It's definitely something with my computer, either AutoCAD settings, graphics card settings, or something. And I can't figure it out for the life of me. I'll talk to my IT director about getting replacement RAM sticks. Thanks.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

pendean — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:36:54 GMT

Is your Windows log-in restricted, or are you a local admin on that PC?
When was the last time you emptied your Windows %TEMP% folder?
If you log-in as an all new user on that same PC, does the problem go away as a test?

Post screenshots of your AutoCAD's ABOUT and GRAPHICSCONFIG commands pop-ups please.

Re: Lag/delay after using COPYCLIP command.

jamieq — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:52:09 GMT

Problem is solved!!!! I finally reached out to Autodesk support, and the guy who was helping recommended I try switching to a different profile. The only other was the default unsaved profile. Switched, and no lag/delay!! It's very likely that, since I've migrated that profile through half a dozen versions of AutoCAD, that something may have gotten corrupt with it, and caused the problem. I deleted it, and saved a new profile with the exact same name, and I am problem free!!