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    I am having some rather major and annoying problems running AutoCAD on my Vista machine. Dell Precision T3400 Intel Quad 2.50 GHz with 8 GB Ram, 64-bit, Nvidia Quadro FX 570 graphics card. I am experiencing crashes and slow saves and performance on both AutoCAD 2009 and 2010. 2009 seems a bit better so I am using that more, but it takes up to 3 minutes to save a drawing that took me about 15 seconds to save when I was running XP. Is this a Vista issue? I have updated to Vista SP2 and loaded all the latest NVidia drivers. Thanks for any help.

    Steve Blackburn
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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    Some of the common fixes for AutoCAD 2009/10 are:

    1. Go into [every] AutoCAD drawing and reset/fix any SCALELISTS (command: SCALELISTEDIT and then RESET). There is also a utility from autodesk you can download so that you can do this externally (do a search for "scale_list_cleanup_utility_32bit.exe").

    2. Turn OFF the Dynamic UCS

    3. Turn OFF the layer palette. You can either use the command CLASSICLAYER or set LAYERDLGMODE to 0.

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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    Thanks for the suggestions. I reset all your recommendations, but I still have the performance issues, especially when saving the drawing. I will also check with IT to see if that may be an issue, but I welcome any more comments or suggestions about these issues.

    Steve Blackburn
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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    Another trick that has helped me in the past is to make sure your Anti Virus software is set up to ignore AutoCAD related extensions (eg. dwg, dcl, lsp, etc) which is probably why it is taking so long to save because you AV is scanning the file for a potential virus.

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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    If it's only when you save drawings try the following:

    SAVEFIDELITY
    PROXYGRAPHICS

    It could also be a problem with your network. IT should be able to verify if there are problems there.

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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    I wonder if we are having similar issues, no crashes but our new Dell Vostro systems (4gb RAM, Vista 64bit, core 2 duo) can open drawings quickly, but every time you save a drawing it freezes up for a long period of time. (like a minute)

    its all drawings, all jobs, and these save fine on other computers. I've tried putting in an external network card, updating drivers etc to no avail.

    Any ideas or am I posting in the wrong thread?

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    Default Re: Help! AutoCAD performance issues

    I'm not experiencing any lag at all. I'm running a Dell T3400, dual core 2.66, Nvidia 570 and 290 video card (I run 3 monitors), and 4G ram. Vista 64. I've had this system for over a year (I think!). I don't think it's a Vista issue.

    Maybe a bad path somewhere that is hanging the system?

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