This is likely a Windose problem, and probably related to all the spyware and keyboard monitoring, etc., that seems endemic here (type a character and the HD lights up), but I thought I ought to throw it out there in case there's an easy fix.
Basically, about 2/3's of the time, when I run DRAW, I get these massive slowdowns. This an XP-Pro system with plenty of RAM, HD space, and a reasonably fast processor, and it happens at random, so I don't think it's a system problem per se. The worst aspect is the copy and paste function. Copying a single text line can tie the system up for 30secs or more, and paste is about three times as bad.
I used to have a dedicated back-up HD that had some kind of software running that seemed to be related to this, as when the local sysop removed it - since it turned out that it was not EVER actually backing up automatically, the problem got a lot more manageable. Of course, that left me without any backup except the company intranet, but that's a separate issue. Any ideas as to why a simple copy and paste would tie up DRAW? It doesn't happen - ever - if I use the CTRL D, instead of CTRL C/V, so it's strictly related to the Windose clip board. But, it ONLY happens with DRAW (X3)... Thanks for any help...
This sounds like you have excessive color styles, see if Fosters blog helps. http://graphics-unleashed.unleash.com/2010/07/delete-extra-stuff-to-speed-up.html Also clean out you temp folder regularly, click, start > run then open %temp%
http://graphics-unleashed.unleash.com/2010/07/delete-extra-stuff-to-speed-up.html
Also clean out you temp folder regularly, click, start > run then open %temp%
That was a good link. We had this problem before and it turned out that our Taiwanese branch apparently was saving every single view, without realizing it, so every file used as a template - which was a large proportion of them - inherited tens of thousands of views. X3 cannot handle this, it appears, and will effectively lock-up - since it can't ever finish loading the tens of thousands of views, so it keeps reloading endlessly, making it impossible to do any work.. They were allegedly going to fix the problem - a year or so ago. But I have no direct communications channel, so since the problem appeared to be getting better, I forgot about it... However, just looked at a recent file, and the views are there - effectively an infinite number, as you can't ever even load the database, even though DRAW insists on trying. The logical thing to do would be to find the view files, whereever they are stored and delect them all, I suppose. So, that is apparently possible in X4+, but maybe not X3. Suggestions?