Processing Speed Slow

[Loover]

In device manager, there is Intel 7 Series / C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller.

Did I download the wrong driver since I have the i5?

Video Card driver looks correct.

 

[Kenmitch]

The chipset driver I think is correct as you have Z77 chipset.

Video card drivers you installed or are they from windows update?

If you run the furmark benchmark again and look on the results page it will list the version of video card drivers your using.

My 5850 which is overclocked to 1000 core 1300 memory scored 2268 points (37 FPS, 60000 ms) I'd think your score would be closer to mine....Unless 7xxx gpu's aren't as good with OpenGL.

 

[Loover]

I will check.

 

[Loover]

Drivers: Video Catalyst - 8.961-120405a-137813C-ATI (4-5-2012)

 

[Kenmitch]

Drivers: Video Catalyst - 8.961-120405a-137813C-ATI (4-5-2012)

Was that a cut and paste from the field? Did you just leave off the Catalyst 12.x ?

Mine shows as Catalyst 12.6 - 8.98-120611a-141402C-ATI (6-11-2012) Mine I just updated to the current ones today.

When I asked about device manager I was looking for something like in this photo. Mainly for anything with the yellow question marks.

If everything looks fine then you might have to look into the settings of the app to see if you can find OpenGL renderer options.

 

[Loover]

Yes that was cut & paste. I have no "Other Devices". I am done for today and will begin looking at settings of the app tommorow.

Thanks for the help Ken

 

[Kenmitch]

Yes that was cut & paste. I have no "Other Devices". I am done for today and will begin looking at settings of the app tommorow.

Thanks for the help Ken

No problem

Maybe updating the video drivers to the latest ones will help. Might wanna also check window update to make sure everything is updated. Look under optional updates also as sometimes things you'll need are optional. Example would be the microsoft.NET updates. Your software relies on microsoft.NET so it could be an issue if it's not current.

Looking at one of the links shows the need to run the install as admin. Did you right click the installer and run as admin when you did the install?

 

[bononos]

This should help you narrow down the exact problem

http://itexpertvoice.com/home/what’s-taking-so-long-how-to-fight-slow-startup-times-in-windows-7/

?? I don't think the OP has a problem with slow booting.

 

[bononos]

ShintaiDK, can you explain what you mean by "offloads to the graphics card"?

What he meant was that your Tekla app (like many 3d/CAD s/w) may need a professional video card like a Quadro or Firegl to run at an optimal speed. So is the app you are running optimized for pro-cards and is your work pc equipped with one?

 

[Loover]

At work all, the programs I write are kept on the server, and all the Tekla files are on the c drive.

On my home computer, everything is on the c drive.

So since I have a 128MB solid state, and a 1TB hard drive, should there be 2 different drives I can see on my computer (c drive and another drive) ?

How would I know that the program is installed on the proper drive?

When I go to the c drive, it say 49.0GB free of 119GB. Does this mean I am only using the solid state? How do I see the other 1TB drive?

Maybe once I put all my additional files on the other drive, it will be faster.

 

[soccerballtux]

solid state is much faster, other drive would be slower. In addition, if it's rendering or computation, probably not much disk throughput needed.

 

[Troy Jollimore]

Which version of Tekla Structures are you running? 17 or 18? You also say that you are 'attached' to the server at work when you're at home? Just for the license, or do your customized files refer to the server for your environments and file locations?

I'm betting that's the source of your slowdown. Your hardware sounds adequate. I've used ATI video cards for other Tekla versions, and they were fine, although the company tends towards the nVidia cards.

 

[Ketchup]

Loover, did you ever get a fix for your problem?