Roman Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Working on Dual 2ghz G5 with 1.5 GB RAM with V11.5.1. Importing a 6mpixel images makes the drawing crawl. Impossible to work with...what's going on? v11 on the PC didn't have this. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Do you have any of the last several options in VectorWorks Preferences : Display tab checked? Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 4, 2007 Author Share Posted June 4, 2007 I tried both caching and acceleration options and nothing changed. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 On or off? Do you have quartz imaging on or off? Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Thanks for helping...I tried both of the VW options on and off with no changes. How do I check quartz imaging? Would it be on automatically since this is a modern system (Geforce 5200 FX card)? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Sorry - Quartz imaging is VW 12 only. I thought you were using VW 12 until I went back and re-read the original post just now. When was the last time you ran Disk Utility? What OS version are you using? Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 I have no idea when Disk Utility was run... 10.3.9 1.5 gb of RAM The program becomes totally unusable with a 2000x2000 image loaded. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Disk Utility is an operating system maintenance program that should be run pretty regularly. I recommend running it every couple weeks, and definitely any time new software is installed or software is updated. This includes OS updates, too. You can find Disk Utility in the Applications : Utilities folders. Before you run it, make sure all of your applications are closed. Also make sure you click on the VERIFY button first and then the REPAIR button. Verify doesn't fix anything. Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 What does the HD have to do with? I understand if virtual memory is in use, but this machine had plenty of RAM. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Disk Utility isn't with the physical hard drive - it's with permissions related to files and the OS that reside on the hard drive. Just simply using the computer causes OS, file, and application permissions to get out of place. It's similar, although much more powerful, to disk defrag on a PC. Mac OS 10 requires a level of user maintenance to keep the permissions and other files intact throughout the architecture residing on the hard drive. Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Katie, I ran verify and repair...still no change, slow as hog. Anything else I can try? By the way, I just tried the images on a Quad Mac Pro with 2 gigs of RAM....brand new, out of the box. So it must be a v11.5.1 issue. Have there been other reports of these slow downs? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 What version did you try it w/ on the new computer? Did you use the same exact file? Quote Link to comment
Roman Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Yes, 11.5.1 with the same file. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 If it works fine on another computer using the same file and same version of VW, then it's probably not VW. There's probably something unique to your settings or your computer that's causing the slowdowns. Is the other computer running OS 10.3.9 or 10.4.x? What other programs do you have running? Have you restarted recently? Quote Link to comment
FredM Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Are you importing from a local, or network drive? Quote Link to comment
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