SketchUp 7 slow on the G5 Power PC
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I have a dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4 GB RAM. I just installed SketchUp 7 to work with some new files and it is impossibly slow. The files are large (30 - 40MB), but even in tiny files, the beachball just keeps spinning and spinning. How can I speed it up? Is it really only meant to run on the Intel Mac?
Thanks.
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i regularly run SU on a 1.33 G4 powerbook and it does pretty good.. certain scripts take a little longer to run and navigating will bog down earlier than on my more powerful computers but it's definitely not impossibly slow.
more likely than not, it's the files you're using
have you used the same files on a different computer and seen an improvement?
edit.. oh wait- even on tiny files? what are you trying to do when the beach ball shows up?
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Jeff,
I've purged unused but this doesn't help. Anything I do is very slow: selecting, moving objects, changing my perspective, copy/paste, etc. Even closing a file takes a while.
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it's really hard to say what the problem is as i haven't experienced it even though i run SU on inferior ppc hardware..
fwiw, SU was originally written on pre intel macs so no, it's not only meant to run on intel macs.
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