Mac Sonoma 14.4.1 vectorworks 2024 very slow in sheet space

[dkleiva]

Hi

 

I just intstalled Vw 2024 on My Macbook Pro from 2021 with M1 Max 32GB. And it is very slow when I edit the work-sheets and viewport.

The spinning wheel appears whenever I do a change in the viewport or even move it on the paper. 

Has anyone know why this can be a problem? 

 

I had some problems with it being slow in the 2023 version, but not as bad as this.  But the file was created in the 2023 version and I imported files from Sketch up.

 

 

 

 

 

[Pat Stanford]

 

[dkleiva]

Thank you for the info! Crossing fingres that the problem might be fixed soon. If not - might I be better off using an older version of Vectorworks?

 

[Pat Stanford]

You could go back to VW2023. Or MacOS 14.3.

 

It appears to be an Apple problem. I am not certain why there has not been a 14.4.2 release to fix this. I believe that 14.5 is in Beta.   🤞

[jbtroost]

5 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

You could go back to VW2023. Or MacOS 14.3.

 

It appears to be an Apple problem. I am not certain why there has not been a 14.4.2 release to fix this. I believe that 14.5 is in Beta.   🤞

14.5 has no printing issues (to me, yet…), as I mentioned in another thread earlier

[dkleiva]

Thanks - I´ll guess I´ll go back to 2023 and wait for 14.5 to be released, as sonoma (14.4.1) is the latest release I can get. I had some problems with 2023 being slow as well, but it wasn´t as bad as 2024.

 

[dkleiva]

3 hours ago, jbtroost said:

14.5 has no printing issues (to me, yet…), as I mentioned in another thread earlier

Have you experienced any problems with VW being slow in 14.5?

[jbtroost]

1 hour ago, dkleiva said:

Thanks - I´ll guess I´ll go back to 2023 and wait for 14.5 to be released, as sonoma (14.4.1) is the latest release I can get. I had some problems with 2023 being slow as well, but it wasn´t as bad as 2024.

 

Did you install 2024 update 4 already? I found some speed improvements there. In design layers, to be honest, but it might help for sheet layers as well!

[dkleiva]

13 hours ago, jbtroost said:

Did you install 2024 update 4 already? I found some speed improvements there. In design layers, to be honest, but it might help for sheet layers as well!

yes - I installed 2024 yesterday and it was really slow as well. I guess I installed the latest update. 

 

[dkleiva]

It seems like the problem might be the Sonoma - I am not quite sure when I updated my system, and I don´t work in vectorworks that often, so I haven´t really experienced these issues. I had some problems with caching graphics slowin the program down, but found some way to improve that.

 

[dkleiva]

But I started working in 2024 again just now - only on my laptop - not with an external display/extra screen, and it seems to be working better now - at least for a little while. 

 

 

 

[Pat Stanford]

Yes, there seems to be a MacOS 14.4 (and 4.1) bug that is impacting programs on machines and is worse with machines with multiple monitors.

 

Hopefully Apple will release 14.4.2 or 14.5 to fix this very soon.

[bjoerka]

Apple released the third beta for 14.5 the last week.

If they keep their strategy... hopefully next tuesday we will know more .-)

[bjoerka]

And there is a fourth beta .-)

[spdygnzls]

I just recently installed Sonoma 14.5 (2021 MBP 16" Max, 64GB) although I wasn't having some of the reported issues of VWA 2024 Update 4 and previous Sonoma OS.  However, I just installed Update 5 and it is now excruciatingly slow and laggy.  I only had two files open, and they weren't very large.  I can't even zoom in/out or pan, etc.  Anyone else have this new issue crop up?  Did your updates improve your previous performance issues?  I am not having issues with other apps or system.

 

EDITED UPDATE: 

I deleted the preferences files and reopened and of course it defaults to my MBP screen.  Works great! EXCEPT that as soon as I move the drawing window to one of my LG Ultrafine 5K screens, the lagginess returns.  Put it back onto my MBP, all good again.  Odd.  Any suggestions?  I will try and reboot, too.

Edited 21 hours ago by spdygnzls