broesler Posted January 17, 2002 Share Posted January 17, 2002 dual G4 450, vw9.5, OSX.1.2, 800+mb ram: One nice side benefit of OSX is the CPU Monitor - real-time bar graphs indicating CPU usage. Dual CPU machines have a graph for each CPU. I have noticed that when a VW document is active (even if there is nothing in the document and even if I am not doing anything) both CPUs are running at 50% - 90% of capacity. The Process Viewer verifies this. Why does it take that much CPU power just to keep VW alive? None of my other applications even come close to consuming this kind of processing power when nothing is going on. 9.5 is much more sluggish doing such things as "select all" or "deselect all" than 8.5.2. Can we expect to see improvement in this area in future VW releases? Quote Link to comment
johnharley Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 I agree. We have been running VW 9.5 on a Dell 933mhz PIII with 512 mb of Ram, WinXP Pro and a 64 mb video card. Vectorworks is VERY slow to open, compared to AutoCAD Lt and Paint Shop Pro It is also slower at performing similar tasks. However, I have found Vectorworks to be far more stable than AutoCad Lt (crash city) and far superior to AutoCAD at bringing in outside images (i.e. jpegs, tiffs, etc) to work on.... But a slightly quicker response would be nice. Quote Link to comment
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