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Could anyone offer some "based on experience" advice for a computer setup that adequately runs Revit MEP. After my nagging about the time required to perform most functions, the IT staff has upgraded the memory and the processor in my computer. Even with these upgrades, Revit still runs slow. If anyone has found a setup that works well, I would appreciate your input. Thanks.
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What ram and cpu are you running now? Go a bit more in depth as to what you mean by it runs slow. Compared to Autocad or what?
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AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.02 GHz, 3.25 GB of Ram AutoCad runs really good. There has been a noticable improvement with AutoCad, since the upgrade. Revit MEP has not improved much. Placing any piping or connecting piping run slow. Changing the visibility to Coarse and Wireframe made a noticeable improvement to zooming commands.
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What size file are you working on? Revit does not take advantage of multi-processors so its only using one of those processors. This is fine as the other processor can take care of running the OS. 3.25GB of RAM is an odd amount. What speed is the RAM? Is it all the same speed? I currently run 2GB of DDR2 PC4000 RAM (2 sticks of 1GB) but i really should upgrade to 4G. Have you enabled the virtual memory switch to enable your pc to use up to 3G of VM? What is your video card and is Open GL enabled on it? This can make a huge difference in 3D views. I'd recommend a minimum of 512MB RAM on your video card and preferably a fairly recent model (past 2 years) that supports open gl 1.3. Realistically your machine should be fine to work on files up to 100MB. But you can have a 100MB file that runs sweet and a 100MB that runs terrible depending on how the file is setup. That is, lots of loaded families that aren't being used, lots of in-place families, lots of arrays, as well as excess views can all have a detrimental effect on performance.
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I agree with Mr. Spot, running 3.25 Gig of ram is going to create issues in its own right. No matter what you should be running an odd amout like that, 3.25 or even 3 over 3 or 4 Dimms is not efficient. If you have 3.25 get 4 1 Gig sticks and run them accross 4 Dimms. Though XP doesnt support 4 Gigs you can still utilize around 3.5 of that more efficiently. And like he said 100 Megs you should be doing fine. We all know that revit is going to run slower than Cad and if you think about it, it makes sense. It has to regenerate all the views and reflect a change through everything, Cad you made a change in Elevation and thats all it was, Revit changes it everywhere. I can say much about what video card you have, but I would feel comftrable going with what Mr. Spot says. Also with the 4 gigs, you need to reconfigure your OS. Your CPU should be fine, Dual Core is nice because of all the XP crap that has to run as well. Other that your ram issue your computer should be fine to run Revit with out too much of a slow run. All in all I basicly second what Mr. Spot had to say on the subject. Grant Doherty
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Thank you guys for the advice. I will discuss it with our IT staff. I will also try to clean up the files. Right now the projects have been ranging between 30 and 70 GB. I will try to clean them up. It makes sense that it would not move as quickly as AutoCad. But, it can be frustrating when it takes 10 minutes to undo a mistake (new user = lots of mistakes). Thank you again for the info.
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* System Requirements --> Intel Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD Athlon processor. --> Microsoft Windows, Vista Enterprises, Business, Premium, or Ultimate. --> Windows XP Professional, Home Edition or tablet PC Edition (SPI or later) or Windowa 2000 SP4 --> 1 GB Ram --> 3 GB Free disk space * System Recommendations --> Intel Core2 Duo 2.40 GHz, or equivalent AMD Athlon processor. --> Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later) --> 4GB Ram --> 5GB Free disk space --> Dedicated video card with hardware support for OpenGL Spec 1.3 or later Regards, Chirag C. Pawar
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You might also try checking your warnings. Those little annoying things that pop up on the bottom right corner of the screen as you're working. You can ignore them and keep working, but if you let lots of warnings build up the file size can get huge. Go to Tools-Review Warnings, and start going through and resolving them. It's a little embarrassing to admit, but I had a huge (60MB) file just last month that I and another coworker had been sharing. I cleaned up the warnings (took the better part of 4 hours, mind you) and after I saved, file size had shrunk to 22MB..... Just another thought. Good luck.
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