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Hi,
I have an intel P4 3.2ghz, 1 Ghz RAM desktop and finding this is running annoyingly slow... whats the best way to give it speed... our tech. person, (who doesn't know much about Revit) has suggested the following:
Dual core CPU
RAID hard drives
2.0 gig RAM
Anyone have any suggestions?
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How big is the file you are working on?
Your system should handle most files upto 50-60MB fine. Providing you have a half decent video card.
Make sure you're not keeping excessive views open. Use the window-->Close hidden windows command to close them occassionally.
If your using worksets only open parts of the model that you need to edit/relate to.
Make sure you don't have lots of 2D linework in views. As linework is parametric its always looking for relationships. Its actually less impact on a model to draw walls that lines...
The RAM is your biggest limiting factor at the moment, for files over 60MB definitely consider 2G RAM.
HTH.
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Mr. Spot,
thans for reply, but what would be a decent video card to have?
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That's a very sore subject for me at the moment... 
check out this thread on Augi: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?p=226004#post226004
it appears that there is no big difference between a $100 with openGL support and a $1000 with openGL...
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I have a frustrating problem similar to yours. I work with revit on two different computers: The ones at my school and the one at home. The school computers are the typical garbage: 1.2 GHz processor, 1/2 gig of ram, no graphics card to speak of. Mine however: 4 Gigs RAM 500 Gigs Hard Drive space ATI Radeon 1650 PRO 2 gigs dedicated graphics memory AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+ Someone please tell me: why is REvit running MUCH slower on my computer than on the school's?
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One question, did you turn ON the "OpenGL or Direct3d" in your "Home Revit"?
Edited on: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:27:58 PM
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I cannot reccomend enabling openGL. On our computers it was constantly messing with the depth clipping. I don't know how or why. panning and zooming for a short time in an elevation view would enable "clipping without line."
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i'm not able to get revit 2010 to reliably open a family object for viewing or editing. i get kicked out when i try to open a family objet-no matter how small. i'm seeing the processor is only maxing at 15% when the program locks up. i'm using a dell inspiron 700m notebook with a 2 gig processor. 2 gb of ram at 1/2 gig speed, 40 gig free hd space, wiindows xp os, and have removed most everything i can from msconfig at startup. it's an old machine i guess but according to autodesk the program should run ok so long as i keep the files small and don't render. any suggestions? the max ram the machine can run is 2 gig. the only thing i'm seeing is maybe the processor is too slow...but it's later than a pentium 4.
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The laptop probably has a crappy onboard videocard. Laptop sellers always gloss over that rather important component, or neglect to mention it among the features, and throw in some cheap onboard video that struggles with youtube... If that's not the case and it's decently powerful, you'll want to try updating your drivers, first. Nothing is released as frequently as graphics drivers, and if the computer is several years old, that software is very obsolete. Look for the card type under system properties or device manager, or google your laptop make and model.
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