My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
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I have an on going issue with this that prevents me from moving up (Please refrence my old thread: thread561-185024: Very poor NX5 Performance....)
I'm now running a Dell 670 Precision Workstation
Xp Pro Serv pack 2
Dual xeon 3.6 chips
4 gig of memory
FX3400 graphics card
This thing just doesnt perform much better than my old Hp XW 6000. To be specific, it's what I call "sticky". Your working along ok then you go to touch a toolbar button or your mousing over an ass'y lighting up componets and it just freezes there.... sometimes for 30 sec.. sometimes for 2 min. And sometimes it never comes alive again. It happens almost avery few minutes in ver. 5. But it does exist in a very subtle way in ver 4 to. However it's not debilitating.
It's so damn frustrating to not have any idea why it's doing this. The specs on this system are so strong!
Has anyone else out there encountered this? I CANT be alone here.
Please help!
I'm now running a Dell 670 Precision Workstation
Xp Pro Serv pack 2
Dual xeon 3.6 chips
4 gig of memory
FX3400 graphics card
This thing just doesnt perform much better than my old Hp XW 6000. To be specific, it's what I call "sticky". Your working along ok then you go to touch a toolbar button or your mousing over an ass'y lighting up componets and it just freezes there.... sometimes for 30 sec.. sometimes for 2 min. And sometimes it never comes alive again. It happens almost avery few minutes in ver. 5. But it does exist in a very subtle way in ver 4 to. However it's not debilitating.
It's so damn frustrating to not have any idea why it's doing this. The specs on this system are so strong!
Has anyone else out there encountered this? I CANT be alone here.
Please help!





RE: My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
RE: My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
Looks like the problem is solved... Been gonig all afternoon and no freezes. I'll repost if it hasn't been really solved.
Thanks again!
Dave
RE: My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
This is getting to the point of being a known bug or series of problems over the last few releases of NX. I hadn't specifically heard reports under NX-4, but this added to the same sort of problems with NX-3 with Microsoft mouses seems indicative of a trend. One of our very large customer sites ditched their optical mouses and went back to ball driven models under NX-3 the report being that they caused lock-ups. In fairness we are running HP workstations, (certified hardware) with optical mouses and have had no problems under NX-3 and NX-4, or NX-5 for that matter not that we've got to use it very much as yet.
It may have been just your earlier post but had I posted earlier I would have given the same answer because word has reached us about these problems popping up again in NX-5. I say "again" wondering (but not knowing) whether it is the same problem or something different.
As regards your graphics card you can't go by gaming benchmarks and we haven't had much joy with some ATI cards. Your NVidia FX3400 should be okay, 512Mb of onboard RAM would be good. Some of the newer models last year had 1Gb of onboard RAM but gave users of NX-3 or 4 nothing much by way of extra performance. By all means stick to the certified cards if you can afford to, but they tend to be the pricier models. I myself and colleagues from other companies have had a good run with mid priced NVidia cards which begs the question why they shouldn't be certified since they mostly seem to work quite well where "bang for your buck" is the main criteria.
Regards
Hudson
RE: My poor NX 5 performance is so frustrating
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