Slow revit performance even with required hardware

[Anonymous]

Hello,

since the last 15 years I'm giving IT support to a mid sized bureau of artchitects. They are currently migrating from AutoCad to Revit, complaining a lot about slow performance of Revit. I delivered them the HP Workstation Z440 (Intel Xeon E5-1620, 16GB DDR3, 256GB SSD) but still not good. I upgraded with nVidia Quadro M4000 card, but they say not to notice a lot of difference.

Does anyone have tips or tricks to improve performance? Are there any settings to manipulate in Revit in order to use graphic acceleration of the Quadro?

Thanks for advising ...

Grtz,

Koen.

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Not a lot you can do with basic Revit. You can switch on hardware acceleration (if not already) under the options menu then the graphics tab.

Revit does not lean too much on a graphics card an still a lot is done in the CPU.

I think the hardware should be OK. But a lot depends on your projects. It can make a big difference if you are working on small projects with a single user.

Or a large very detailed project with many users worksharing. This would require to look at how the project is to be setup (worksets, linking files etc)

In the last case also network performance and server performance might come into play.

"Complaining about performance". Also consider that this might be a case of reluctance to migrate.

It is quite common that during the change period people complain that the previous option could do this and that better. Especially if they keep trying to do the things the old way. In that case it is not the hardware but training and the transition process that should be looked at.