Performance Degradation
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Over the last couple of weeks I have seen my performance in SU and now Layout degrade to the point where it is causing some problems. Today was the first time that I saw the degradation in Layout but it was pretty severe (maybe even worse than what I have seen in SU). So far I have not been able to figure it out. I have not seen any degradation anywhere else that I could discern.
I am running SU 2015 Pro on Windows 8.1 with an i7 processor with 12Gb of ram and an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 765M with 2Gb.
Any suggestions would be accepted.
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And you confirm this is with different files, not just one in particular.
If you were of the mind and you had the resources... I would install a new windows installation on a new disk or freshly formatted disk, then install SU2015 on it alone and see how to does.
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@krisidious said:
And you confirm this is with different files, not just one in particular.
If you were of the mind and you had the resources... I would install a new windows installation on a new disk or freshly formatted disk, then install SU2015 on it alone and see how to does.
Yes, I am having problem in one form or another in every file plus everything is loading much slower.
Nice suggestion but not an option. Also thought about trying to reinstall SU
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Well, I can only think it's system related...
You can see what's running and cross check the processes and services.
This will get you started with some usual suspects...
http://process.iamnotageek.com/file_info.php
Check here for windows processes and then cross check anything that is not on these lists.
http://features.en.softonic.com/20-windows-processes-you-can-kill
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I just finished updating to Windows 10 and am not seeing any difference so far.
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you just updated to windows 10 and you're still experiencing the problem the same as you did on Win 8?
When you upgraded did you have to reinstall all your software or did it just upgrade?
If you were having the issue on win 7/8 and now the same on 10 and you only did an upgrade, then you very well may still have whatever processes installed. Windows only really needs a few of those processes to run and the fewer running the better it does.
Most software installed these days thinks very highly of itself and wants to install multiple processes and some will run all the time, like java updater and adobe arm, nvidia has like 7. The large companies do it a lot, but the small companies do it poorly, they will install resource hawgs behind your back and you'll never know. Many times even after uninstalling, registry items and services continue to run.
The point I'm getting at is that when a computer is acting sluggish, when it had not before, then it can only be a few things.
The common culprits.
- critical mass hit on running processes and services.
- software conflict or bad driver.
- poorly optimized hardware and or os/software.
- hardware out of date for subjected use.
- bottle neck, something is holding everything else back. for instance if you had a Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield and you had 32gb of ram and a Titan video card, it would be a good guess that the i7 was too slow for the rig or the jobs it's doing.
And then there is this... The reason I have an i5 is because I work on SU, an older single core program. So it doesn't matter how many cores I have, it matters how fast each of them are. I run an i5 2500k overclocked to 5ghz. So I get the most bang for buck on SU speed.
Because seeing things like this just make you sad...
- So you already answered the is your system fast enough, it was... so it should still 2. be. is there a conflict? new OS so prolly not if it was happening before.
- that leaves the conflicts, the processes and services or your system needs to be optimized.
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It is acting as if it is not using the graphics card at all. I had 2014 on an older machine that did not have a dedicated graphics card and it acted the same way. I went and checked the Nvidia settings and the look correct. In fact this morning, I did a restore on those settings and still the same response.
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You need to go to your device manager and look at your video cards. See if you have just the one 765 or if you also have the onboard. if you have the onboard, right click and disable.
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And you're sure it's not overheating? A laptop under heavy use in Texas? might install Hardware Monitor from CPU-ID guys and check your temps while you work. Might also pull up the performance tab on task manager and watch the ram and cpu to see how they are doing during use.
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Here is a screen shot of the device manager (some things are more difficult to find and manage in Win 10 IMHO)
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this will read the kind of underwear you have on... give it a go.
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