Revit 2009 - Performance

[dfriesen]

By the way, is there anything I should know about the switch over from beta to release? Uninstall and reg clean, or is a straight install ok? Does the file preview get fixed with the release install?

[Wes Macaulay]

I uninstalled then reinstalled, nothing else

[GuyR]

Does the file preview get fixed with the release install?

Not on my WinXP32 PC.

[armbarsalot]

I've been through a lot of releases of autocad, ADT ect, if you expect a better product in the long run you may be disappointed. They will change the interface, add a few widgets, usually a few real enhancements call it a release, not fixing previous flaws. As long as you expect this you will never be disappointed. The irrational part is when they mess with the workflow, ie when ADT became incompatible with VIZ 4 ect., but thats the way it goes, buy more subscriptions & go with the flow, or use old processes that work.

2008 is working pretty good right now, no need for 2009 until its a clear advantage.

[dfriesen]

Ah, good to know. That gives me justification for blowing off some of the work I should be doing, and get the new install set up. Thanks Wes!!

Well, ****! Just after I uninstalled, the boss comes by with a minor revision and a 'send this off asap to the client'. The only other machine with 2009 is busy on a render. I tried installing, and it's got errors. Uninstall, reg clean, reboot, reinstall - no dice.

Time for I guess...

[Scott D Davis]

I uninstalled then reinstalled, nothing else

The installer will prompt you to uninstall old versions. Your choice to leave 'em there or uninstall them.

[ckc.mike]

As we work on new releases, we run pretty comprehensive performance tests and we watch these things very closely to prevent slowdowns. So if you are experiencing issues that we didn't see in-house, they may have a number of explanations; to be able to answer and deal with them, it would help us immensly to get specifics reported to Support (what operations are slow, in what models, on what hardware configurations).

thank you for your patience and understanding.

From what you saying, you guys are pretty confident with the "Slow Down" issue had been well addressed in-house. Therefore, I assume the programing of the new release is pretty well built. So the performance variation between the test you did in-house and the test we did on our PCs, more or less are caused by the hardware configurations and the operation system.
So could you please tell us, what are the hardware configurations and operation system you guys used in-house for the performance test? (Including all the 'tweak' you guys did to the PCs, if any). So we are able to build a PCs to 'match' with the performance test you did in-house. I guess that sound pretty fair.

[MRV]

I can't tell you about their's, but here's mine (with no major problems or slowdowns like your'e talking about):

XP SP2 (this install is over a year old) w/o the 3gb switch
Intel E6600 2.4 Core 2 Duo, MSI P965 Platinum MB (last year's hot stuff... really old now)
2 GB Corsair DDR2-667
PNY Quadro FX1500 with latest drivers (169.39 and 169.47 now tested)

Most of my revit files are <100mb...

[patricks]

No major issues here, either.

Dell Precision 490 w/ dual dual-core Xeon 2.66 GHz processors
4 MB ram
10K RPM HDD
nVIDIA QuadroFX 550 dual-DVI graphics card

[ckc.mike]

I understand that the performance issue is not happen to everyone. What i am try here is to narrow down the possiblities which vary the performance.
Since the hardware configurations from PCs to PCs could be great vary, so I would very interested to know the hardware configurations they used to run thier performance test in-house. Therefore, we can compare 'Apple with Apple', and we would able to match the performance which Autodesk expected.