Ok, I've been using this system for nearly 4 years. It's awesome, until today. My cursor on the screen seems to "drag" along and makes my drafting time somewhat painful.
Any ideas? First, it's not a mouse issue as it doesn't do it on anything other than Carlson. Second, I checked that first. Third, I've already restarted the machine and the program to no avail.
TIA,
Could be a computer video card problem.
I ran into similar issue last winter using a dual screen set-up with AutoCAD 2011.
It sounds like a problem I've had in the past. I've even posted on this board for ideas to fix it. The last time it happended, I believe it was a probalem with the snap setting. I had to go into the command line and type the "snap" command. Then, type "off" to turn the snap off. It didn't work by clicking on the snap tab. The command had to be typed in.
If that doesn't work, you might have to go under your drawing utilites and audit your drawing.
Good Luck. I spent the better part of a day fighting with it.
Check your task manager to see if either a svchost.exe or windows update is taking the processor to 99% usage. You may have a background process that is hogging the processor.
Jason
If you have the CD, I would thing it is time for a re-install.:-(
It was working yesterday and I have a new machine. I don't think video card is it, but thanks.
Yeah, probably the first thing I'd do is audit the drawing and then go from there.
Also, I can't help but wonder if it's not really just a problem with your machine overall and not Carlson. I'd probably do a little PC housecleaning (CCleaner, MalwareBytes' AntiMalware, Defraggler). Even if it doesn't fix the problem at hand, it can't hurt. 🙂
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That would be think it is time for a re-install. My fingers seem to have disconnected.
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and irritating at the same time.
Ok, task manager was nill. I have a 3.2 ghz with 8 gig of ram on this new windows 7 with a terrabyte of hd 426 hemi I had built. But I hadn't checked that.
What I did notice is that if I window all windows down till I'm at the desktop, then open Carlson window up, it works. Make it more than number one in line, and damn it ray it sucks.
I have no idea why. I'll restart the old hemi here and see if that helps.
Thanks anyway guys!
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We had the same problem when we bought new machines a few months ago. Had to upgrade the video cards.
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Good to know.
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I have a desktop with similar specs and have noticed cursor lag from time to time.
By problems quit when I close some windows and programs that are running but don't show up on the task menu.
I think some of that is happening within Firefox and Adobe Flash that take up some ram momentarily and don't necessarily show up on a meter.
Downloading PDF files will take longer some times and freeze the screen, cursor and keyboard until the files are completely loaded.
It has helped to dump the temporary files, purge the trashcan, delete history, close everything and restart the computer.
good luck
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That makes sense. You can have a killer machine with 50 billion gigs of RAM and a 400 trillion terabyte drive running at 387,000 rpm and that video card could bring the whole thing down. If it is an integrated video card (meaning that it is integrated into the motherboard), then it likely shares RAM with the system and is quite limited. The only way to go when using CAD or other graphics-intense software is a dedicated video card with its own RAM, preferably a gig or more.
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Are you using a big enough hammer?;-)
Sounds like new-machine-itis, to me....
But I could be wrong:-P
Radar
Sounds more like a PC issue than the software itself as others have stated. One simple way to relieve alot of the strain on your computer is to change what programs boot up when the computer is turned on. A simple way to do this is click start and in the run box or search box in vista/7 type in "msconfig" (without the quotations) and click enter. Then click the startup tab and uncheck everything that is not essential to start when your computer boots up and hit apply then restart. The programs will still run properly but will only start when another program tells them they are needed or if you click the application or a file that uses one of the applications. Also do not uncheck anything if you dont know what it is your turning off as this could have a bad outcome. If you find something missing that you like starting up just do the same command and re-check whatever it was. This will also make your computer start up and be ready to use much faster. Hope this helps.
Also if your new system runs on a 64 bit opperating system you might want to consider upgrading your auto-cad to 64bit. From what I hear it speeds things up pretty drasticly over running it in 32bit. Unless you are using the intellicad version.