Debugging .idw file

[Anonymous]

Hi All,



I'm looking for suggestions for an .idw file that is extremely sluggish on
three identical machines, but not on a fourth different machine. The idw
file is based on an ipn and has roughly 13 views spread out over 2 sheets
(it's a system assembly drawing).



Machines 1-3 take about 3 minutes to open the file, once opened these really
lag. Zoom commands and moving views is very slow and painful. On machine 4
the same file (identical) takes 1.5 min to load and is quick and painless
for all commands.



So far we've tried the following with no effect: exchanging graphics cards,
adding more ram (task manager doesn't show paging, even with just 1GB),
matching virtual mem settings, running the file from local disk and network
location.



Anyone out there have other suggestions before I try changing the OS?



Sean



Machines 1, 2 and 3:

Dual Xeon 1.8GHz

1G RAM

64MB GeForce 2MX - single monitor

Windows 2K

IV6SP2



Machine 4:

Dual AMD MP2000+ (1.66GHz)

1G RAM

64MB GeForce 2MX - dual monitor

Windows XP Pro

IV6SP2

[Anonymous]

Could be anything. AMD vs Xeon. The fact that the AMD is a faster processor. I personally think the graphics in XP are faster than Win2k (that's unproven). Could also be the motherboard. Within the differences between Win 2k & XP as well as the differnce in motherboards are a bunch of settings that could be affecting the performance.



This could be a tough one to track down. Upgrading your video cards alone may make a world of difference.



MechMan

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Mechman for the reply. I agree that upgrading the video card would
probably help, but it's hard to justify when the same card works great in
another machine (albeit with a different, OS, processor, etc.).

Sean

[Anonymous]

Hey Sean, Our drafters are having a weird issue aswell. We notice some of our complex drawings were sluggish untill we went from a GeForce 64MB to GeForce4 128MB card. We are running New Dells, 4550 Dim. 512 Ram, 2.6 Processor's. We do how ever have a lag time when opening drawings fron our Network, but not local......