Autocad 2012 64 bit

[bowtle]

I was wondering if other people are having any issues with Autocad 2012 64 bit crashing??

This is the first time i have used the 64 bit version, and Windows 7 with 4gb ram on i7 3.4Ghz

I have had more fatal errors since i installed this than i have had with all other previous versions.

I have tried repairing and done a reinstall with no difference.

It does not happen every time, but i have had fatal errors saving a drawing, closing autocad as well as at other times.

another interesting problem i had was in one drawing (and only that drawing) every time i did a save it would take 1 minute longer than the last time.

One of the current annoyances is if i double click to edit a piece of mtext sometimes it will not open the editor until i do an audit of the drawing (and it does not find any errors) and then i can edit it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming very annoying.

[ccowgill]

I havent had this experience. However, on the save time issue, have you made sure that your maintain visual fidelety and drawing size compatibility are shut off? I found it significantly reduces file save time.

[JLHConsulting]

2d drawings or 3d? Using Hidden or any 3d viewstyle in viewports causes it to crash alot.

[Ed Jobe]

2d drawings or 3d? Using Hidden or any 3d viewstyle in viewports causes it to crash alot.
If that is the case, you want to make sure you have an adesk certified video card AND the latest drivers.

[bowtle]

I havent had this experience. However, on the save time issue, have you made sure that your maintain visual fidelety and drawing size compatibility are shut off? I found it significantly reduces file save time.

Nope i had not, but have now ... :) Thanks


2d drawings or 3d? Using Hidden or any 3d viewstyle in viewports causes it to crash alot.

Mostly very basic 3D, not using any hidden or 3d viewstyles. Thanks


If that is the case, you want to make sure you have an adesk certified video card AND the latest drivers.

I dont have a certified video card ... probably worth getting a new video card Thanks

[Ed Jobe]

I dont have a certified video card ... probably worth getting a new video card Thanks
Then you might try unchecking the video driver options one at at time and see if it makes a difference. Also, you still want to make sure that you have the latest driver.

[dgorsman]

And, snag some more RAM; Win 7 64bit on only 4GB is cutting it a little close. The high-end i7 processors cost and arm and a leg (and probably another appendage as well...), spending ~$100 on more RAM would be nothing compared to that. You should be using either 6GB or 8GB, depending on if the motherboard is set up for dual channel or triple channel RAM. If you can 12/16 GB would be better but maybe overkill, like the processor.

[osnapendp407315]

I am using 2012 Mechanical and it is very crash happy. I doubt any amount of ram will keep AutoCAD from crashing as I have had it crash on the simplest of drawings, and of course, nothing I can get to repeat. Probably one broken dll file or corrupt MS file. I keep filling out the CER reports so I hope they come up with something soon.

Dell Precision T7500, Dual Xeon, 6GB, nVidia Quadro 3800, 10K harddrive (lots of available room)

[JLHConsulting]

yes and yes and it makes no difference in regards to crashes.

[saraedith885392]

I am also having this problem it seems -- when I create a new view (with sun/sky as background and additional info), and then when I ask it to go to that new view after I've saved it, it freezes. And comptuer has to be restarted.

(Also the orbit tool will crash the program, but a message box to Autodesk will show up for this one.)

I think I have some similarities in configuration as you:

Dell XPS L702X
Windows 7 / 64 bit operating system
Intel Core i7-2720 QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 Ghz
8.00 GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M graphics card

. . . I tried to research this (new) computer that it would work best with rendering in CAD (and evenutally Revit) . . . I sure hope I made the right choices . . .

Any feeback will be really appreciated (thanks).
:|

[Grumpy]

I also have a new computer with Windows 7 64-bit.

a Dell T7500, 12 GB Ram, 6-core, Intel Xeon X5650, 2.67 GHz with an nVidia Quadro graphics card.

AutoCAD 2012, 64-bit is installed. I have had a few crashes, that I attribute to the Drawing Tab utility. But what I find odd is that there are some commands that this "Fast" machine takes a long time to process. Inserting a block from a Tool Palette takes several seconds, where before it was almost instantaneous. The other one was I had a 3D solid that I had imported from Solidworks and I ran the Flatshot command on it and it took literally 30 minutes to finish it. In AutoCAD 2012, 32-bit on WinXP Pro it would take 10-15 minutes, but half the time I couldn't continue working very long otherwise the computer would crash, but with Win7 it doesn't crash, it just takes a long time.

David

[Tommybluegrass]

Check you Incremental Save Percentage - help file info below

Sets the percentage of potentially wasted space in a drawing file. Full saves eliminate wasted space. Incremental saves are faster but they increase the size of your drawing. If you set Incremental Save Percentage to 0, every save is a full save. For optimum performance, set the value to 50. If hard disk space becomes an issue, set the value to 25. If you set the value to 20 or less, performance of the SAVE and SAVEAS commands slows significantly. (ISAVEPERCENT system variable)

[cadtag]

YMMV -- but today it makes no sense to me to worry about incremental saves. We're not running on DOS in 640K Ram, and we're not running with MFM hard drives or 4 Mbit star topolgy networks. The additional time required to do a full save is too small to notice or care about. Set ISAVEPERCENT to 0, and leave it at that.

[jaberwok]

I'm with cadtag.
I've always set ISAVEPERCENT to zero; at first other values sometimes caused problems, now it's just irrelevant.