Sketchup running slow

wawmsey7

Hi,
I recently purchased a new machine with the following spec:

Windows 7
dual xeon x5650 2.66 GHZ (12 cores / 24 thrads)- (sketchup will only use one of these )
Quadro 600 graphics card
12gb Ram
standard 1tb hard-drive

However, sketchup is still running rasonably slow and laggy etc. especially when using dynamic components with on click function or when it has to process new information in the dynamic component window. I thought that it would be super smooth on this machine... Anyone have any ideas why this may be?? could the graphics card possibly be letting the side down or would an ssd help (i doubt it).

Running Sketchup Pro 8 with Vray 1.6 installed

p.s vray works a treat with all 24 threads chuipping in...

dukejazz

HI

In Window Windows 7 I would use the task Manager go to process - Sketckup - right click - set priority to high

If something in backgound uses alot of cpu then set their priority to low

also Find a unused core setting in the a affinity for Sketckup

2.66 GHZ is your speed limit
window block share the -cpu- ram-and priority
it nice You have 12 gig of ram but skutchup uses only about 400M working mem

Your resource is share with everything on your machine

Now use the maxium resource amount cpu just below 50% if it hits 50 it the cpu limit of sketchup- since I don't have your machine-this is a guess-I would use lower grarph setting, thier no shader in skutchup

I would look at sketchup Properties row back some on the modes in compatibility
when they made the sketchup core it was for a xp-2000 machine

Basic Window is faster then windows areo

Since 2006
Speed of core machine has been 2.66 GHZ

so your exspectaion iz false = " I thought that it would be super smooth on this machine... "
your windows is 64 and window 7 thus has not been fully tested for sketchup

run it in 32 mode

best thing I said here is item # 1 above this maybe all you need

wawmsey7

thanks for your help,
I set sketchup to high priority and the affinity to core no. 23...
However it still seems the same. Main problem being when using and altering dynamic components it gets rather slow and laggy, usually get the following message:
'this operation seems to be taking a long time. would you like to continue?' with the working bar ticking away at the bottom.

In the BIOS I have set my pc to hyper-threading mode to get the best speed when rendering. Could this setting be negatively effecting sketchup possibly as it can now use only one of 24 cores as opposed to one of 12 cores??

wasn't 100% sure how to do the next part:
'Now use the maxium resource amount cpu just below 50% if it hits 50 it the cpu limit of sketchup- since I don't have your machine-this is a guess-I would use lower grarph setting, thier no shader in skutchup'

thanks

numerobis

Have you checked if hardware accelleration is turned on in the sketchup OpenGL preferences ?
Did you install the lastest (or newer) driver or the one that came with the graphics card?

Which screen resolution do you have? And which antialiasing settings? The Quadro 600 is based on a GT430, so it's not the strongest card... but it should run better than a GT430 in OpenGL.

But if your problem is more the dynamic component processing speed i'm not sure if this can be graphics card related... should be more a cpu thing. A 2,66GHz Westmere Xeon core is not the fastest solution for sketchup today... but it's hard to tell if this can be the problem without knowing the size of the sketchup models you're using.

And i would not set affinity to one special core... only if you have a rendering running in the background. And no HT shouldn't have any negative effect - only for rendering, if you turn it OFF.

Krisidious

Sounds like you've built a nice render farm box. Now it's time to build a sketchUp machine. Thankfully the SketchUp machine will be dirt cheap because you only need a few gigs of ram, a gaming videocard and a single processor or high speed multi-core processor. I would say this could be done with a few hundred dollars depending on what parts you have laying around. You could get an 1155 board on ebay for like 50, an i5 or i7 in the 3 ghz range that can be overclocked to 5 ghz for around 150-200 and an older GTX 4 or 5 series for around 100. now if you have a few parts laying around you're set to build with sketchup and do renderings on your other box while you work. I would imagine that this will be faster than any settings you can make on that box you're currently using.

However, I think you might be having an issue some where that can be resolved on your current system. Sketchup hasn't changed all that much over the years and you should be able to handle it with this setup.

I wonder if this issue happens with all dynamic components or just a certain set?

Yes, an SSD will be a noticeable increase in performance on the whole machine but specifically larger software packages like adobe and autocad. SketchUp will load much faster.