Increasing priority of SU in task manager
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Often it happens that SketchUp hangs midway of some crucial stage in modeling. I often increase the priority in the windows task manger from normal to realtime, so that SketchUp doesn’t hang and speeds up the process in which it has got hanged. Does this method work actually? I don’t know whether SketchUp recovers from the hang because of the fiddling that I do in task manager or due to the time elapsed. One more thing, how much should one wait when SketchUp hangs during 3d modeling process? 10 minutes, 20 minutes? And is it safe or risky to open another window of SketchUp and start doing something else related to the work you’re currently engaged in?
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This shouldn't be happening. Are you working on models on a network drive? I have heard this can hang SketchUp during an auto-save.
I have tried increasing priority when playing some games. I've never really been able to tell a difference.
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@jim said:
This shouldn't be happening. Are you working on models on a network drive? I have heard this can hang SketchUp during an auto-save.
I have tried increasing priority when playing some games. I've never really been able to tell a difference.
I'm using sketchup on my laptop with 2gb graphics card and an i5 processor, no network drive, just simple usage.
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Hi John 2, I am no expert, but it seems to me that you are simply under rammed. i read your other post and i see you only have 4 gb ram. If you can add ram, you will see improvement. in the mean time try to not run any other programs while running sketchup. But even while running by itself, I think you will still hang up at times with only 4gb ram.
One thing I did not know that I learned while solving this same problem on my old lap top is that if you plan to go over 16gb ram with windows 7, it needs to be windows seven pro.
When I increased my ram from 8 gb to 32, the locking up problem went away.
paul
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If you are disciplined enough you can turn of your auto-save. Before you do, check to see that it is actually the file save slowing you down. It is going to happen if you have complicated geometry and many texture images. Opening another SU session will either crash your box or slow you down to dead stop.
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