Guest Ann Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Okay, this is an annoying problem. I built a new machine with an Intel Core2 Duo and Intel 965 board, 8gb ram, nvidia quadro fx560 and xp pro x64. Our company runs Solidworks, COSMOSWorks. The install was standard and I installed all the updates. The only thing I had a problem with is finding a functional audio driver which isn't a problem because this machine doesn't need audio to do what it was built to do. I got all the other drivers working just fine and just disabled the audio. I set it up on our domain and installed Solidworks Premium and COSMOSWorks. After it is all installed, I run the program and open up an assembly. It opens, WOW, super fast, and the views can be rotated flawlessly. I close the program and load our antivirus, AVG (we are going to a different one soon) and biggity-bam, the thing runs like crap. Remove the A/V and it works great again. Seeing that AVG does not support x64, I set out to try and pinpoint the issue. I installed NOD32, Trend Micro Office Scan 8 and Avast with all the same results. Mind you I disabled the real-time scanner when trying to load Solidworks. I still got the same old molasses speed. I remove the A/V software, reboot and magically everything works fabulous again. I also tried increasing the pagefile max and min and changing the processor scheduling from Programs to Background Services. I did not try changing the memory usage. Multitasking on this beast is also a pain. Any advice or fixes for this issue. We don't really want to have a machine on the network without protection because it absolutely needs to be able to access network resources/files in order for it to do what it is supposed to do. Please help!
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