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