Vectorowrks Crashing on new machine

[Joshua Thatcher]

I have started using a Sager Laptop for my designs. It has crashed with Vectorowrks since the beginning. It usually happens after a series of nudges or changing serveral perameters one after another. It freezes so hard that the computer locks up even after I finally get Vectorowrks to Shutdown.

I check my running progams staus info and it says that the CPU usage of Vectorworks is in the range of 97 to 99%. I have left for up to 30 mins to see if the problem resolves itself and gives me message of any sort. I eventually have to hard reboot the machine. I have run Vectorowrks with a lesser quality Laptop aand it runs fine.

HELP!!!

My Specs are as Follows:

Vectorworks Designer 12.5

Windows XP Home - Version 2002 - SP2

AMD Turion 64 Mobile

Technology ML-44

2.41 GHz , 2GB Ram

Dual NVidia GEForce Go 7900 GTX Graphics Cards

[Guest]

It's probably a matter of updating the video driver.

[Joshua Thatcher]

I have checked all of those types of options. The machine is 3months old and all of the drivers are current. I have checked them myself. I have also reinstalled the drivers to see if there is a change. So far no difference.

[Ray Libby]

Just to double check, did you go to NVidia's website and download the lastest driver?

[cbaarch]

we have shied away from running the Home version of XP

we run XP Pro

we have not had any issues especially with a clean install

[Joshua Thatcher]

Have double checked and rechecked the NVidia website. They have an update but it does not apply to my machine. I did however uninstall the drivers completely off of the computer and reinstalled them. Performance has increased. No crashes today.

Thanks to everyone for your input.