2017 on workstation very slow

[lowcountrycamo]

I am helping my fellow programmer with his problem.  He has a high end HP workstation.  Ever since moving to 2017 his pc is performing terribly.  Our IT guys have ran hardware test on the station for 24 hours with no problems.  Mastercam crashes sometimes but the main problem is verify will take hours for a simple part.  He works on 1-3 pcs assembles at most.  The problems really seem gpu related.   I am going to help him in the morning.  I thought about re-downloading 2017 and reinstalling.  Maybe his download got jacked up. 

 

Also, will we loose all his tool list with a reinstall?  I am somewhat computer savvy but never installed Mcam.  I will also verify that his Quadro drivers are up to date. 

[Guest]

Complete specs on the box?

 

Does it meet this.....hopefully not minimum

 

http://www.mastercam.com/en-us/Support/System-Requirements

Edited April 17, 2017 by Guest

[lowcountrycamo]

I will find out tomorrow but I hope so. We paid 6 grand for it!  I know its a Xeon, 32gig, and a quadro.

[JoshC]

Sounds like a Graphics related issue if I had to guess, there is not much info there to go on but I know that is certainly where I would start my search if I were in your shoes. Also If the computer has more than 1 gfx card you may want to also check to see which is being used. that's my $.02 on this topic and I hope this helps.

[lowcountrycamo]

So I will update driver, Check Precision factor - 1 for fastest.  And Precision Index what is this for, and does lower number = fastest. Anything else before I do a reinstall?  I could not find the hardware acceleration switch in 2017.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Xeon's are often noticeably slower than the much more economically priced i7's (and now Ryzen's) unless you spend oodles to get to the real top end.  Mastercam still relies heavily on clock speed.

[lowcountrycamo]

So I updated the quadro k2200 driver and running much better.   Cant believe the IT guys did not do this.  They have been working on this for a week.  Thanks for the help.