Constant crashes of Autocad 2021 using Nvidia P2000

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Before I completely lose the will to live I'm hoping someone can help me? I have a tower and a laptop workstation and use Autocad on both of them. On the laptop, I never have any performance problem, but on the desktop, for the past couple of months, things have been pretty bad. 

The machine's spec is 

Intel Xeon E-2146G CPU

16GB ram

Windows 10 Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.508)

NVidia P2000 graphics card

I am running Autocad 2021 with the latest updates. 

For months, it worked fine but then a couple of months ago it would frequently crash...no matter what drawing I was on, it would just crash and give no option to save first. I think it would normally happen after zooming in, or when selecting a polyline to lay down a hatch. I updated the graphics card driver to the latest official one (R450 U3 (452.06)), but all that did was mean Autocad wouldn't even launch (I'd get the splash screen but then it would disappear and there'd be nothing). I have since rolled the driver back to version 26.21.14.4205 which at least lets me operate Autocad but the frequent crashes are back. It's driving me insane!

Does anyone have any good ideas?!

Many thanks. 

[pendean]

Roll back to an even older driver and see if that helps calm things down for you.

[Anonymous]

Thanks - I've thought about it but not tried that as the current driver pre-dates any problems I've been having. I shall give it a go if I need to but...

..I noticed this morning that if Auotcad is maximised in the screen, it seems stable and that it was only crashing this morning if it was being used half-screen. I wonder if there is a bug which causes this or whether my Dell Display Manager (which auto snaps windows to areas of the screen) was a cause. I've removed that too. So far so good. 

[pendean]

>>>...whether my Dell Display Manager (which auto snaps windows to areas of the screen) was a cause. I've removed that too....<<<
Good idea.