SketchUp faster on Win 7 64 bit. - Really?

rock1

I'm using Win Xp Pro SP 3. I have seen good performance of sketchup on sp3 and even on sp2 on

%(#0000BF)[**--**a machine having a core 2 duo processor, 4gb ram
**--**a machine having core 2 quad proecessor, 2gb ram]

also good performance on a machine having
**--**a machine having core 2 quad proecessor, 2gb ram, windows vista 32 bit

But unfortunately. I have seen SketchUp perform slow on a system that has

Core i5, 4gb ram, Windows 7 64 bit, lots of free hard disk space, all the necessary drivers installed, no unncessary software. It was a clean system, with no viruses. In fact all of the tested system were free of viruses.

What seems to be the case.?? My peers also say that windows 7 64 bit performs slower than the 32 bit version.

Although, what logics say that Windows 7 64 bit on a good machine should have the best performance of SketchUp which I haven't seen in reality [in front of my eyes ]

Gaieus

What are the clock speeds of those CPU's?

thomthom

I use Win7 64bit on all my machines at home and at work. No performance issue there.

The place where I have seen performance issues has been related to graphic card hardware or drivers.

rock1

@thomthom said:

The place where I have seen performance issues has been related to graphic card hardware or drivers.

well that must be the case. What exactly have you seen. I mean were the graphic drivers out of date or what?

thomthom

In personal experience:

I found ATI cards to display glitches and artifacts more often than nVidia.

In noticing queries here on the forum:

Often users don't keep their drivers updated. They'll be running with the drivers that came with the computer.
Some graphic cards just don't have good hardware acceleration. This is usually with laptops and low end computers.
In some cases users had deactivated hardware acceleration within SketchUp without realising it.

If Windows7 had a performance problem in general then there'd be all over this forum. Any performance issues is most likely to be related to the graphic card or some other issue causing a system degradation.

rock1

right. Another thing I just think is that Win 7 requires more sources. It's minimum ram requirements is i guess 1 gb. on the other hand XP needs less resoures. It's lighter too. Then how come windows 7 will perform better? It will use more ram. On the other hand XP will use less RAM. The remaining RAM will be used by renderings and SketchUp. Isn't it

rock1

@thomthom said:

I use Win7 64bit on all my machines at home and at work. No performance issue there.

What are the configs of processor and RAM that you're using? [on Windows 7]