ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
(OP)
I'm getting tired of seeing this message:
"Solidworks cannot startup because the system desktop application resources have been exceeded."
... which is presented in a standard Windows dialog box, apparently by the Solidworks launcher, which then declines to actually launch Solidworks, and closes itself when you press 'OK', the only choice of responses presented.
I'm guessing that "system desktop application resources" refers to _something_ that SW requests from Windows... but I'm not sure what that something is, because I don't have a translator between "Solidworks programmer mumbo-jumbo" and "Windows programmer mumbo-jumbo". Google didn't help.
Care to guess what I can do to provide more "system desktop application resources"?
Thanks
Mike
SW 2008SP3/WinXP
"Solidworks cannot startup because the system desktop application resources have been exceeded."
... which is presented in a standard Windows dialog box, apparently by the Solidworks launcher, which then declines to actually launch Solidworks, and closes itself when you press 'OK', the only choice of responses presented.
I'm guessing that "system desktop application resources" refers to _something_ that SW requests from Windows... but I'm not sure what that something is, because I don't have a translator between "Solidworks programmer mumbo-jumbo" and "Windows programmer mumbo-jumbo". Google didn't help.
Care to guess what I can do to provide more "system desktop application resources"?
Thanks
Mike
SW 2008SP3/WinXP
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA






RE: ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
RE: ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
What are your system specs?
Is your RAM still good?
What else do you have running?
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And _lots_ of other stuff running, usually including Outlook, MSIE with at least 10 tabs open, Excel with at least 4 files open, coupla text files, and often AutoCAD 2008.
But no ACAD today; just the 'other stuff' had apparently consumed too much of whatever the hell there's not enough of for SW to start.
I asked for a second computer just to run the 'other stuff', and got shot down by IT. You know how that goes.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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RE: ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
How is your RAM split? Some types really need you to have equal-size/type sticks of RAM.
Also, IE can be a big memory loss, depending on what's running. Ever try Firefox (might not be much better)?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
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If yes, throw some more RAM in there. I believe the max for a 690 is 32GB which should keep you going for a while.
RE: ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
Maybe I'll try Opera; I like that better than FF anyway.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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thread559-155411: 3GB Memory Switch..
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If it's a x32 system, activate the /3GB switch (it's free and takes less than a minute), and if that helps, then max out the RAM.
Also, do you have any add-ins selected in SW?
Do you have a problem running SW when nothing else is running?
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Uh, "add-ins"? As in, what? We have 'toolboxes' for standard parts and such.
No problems to report running SW alone. AND, today, with Acad also open, half a dozen files open in both, dozens of tabs in MSIE, half a dozen files open in Excel, and assorted other crap going on (two rows on the taskbar, both full) ... SW ran all day with no problems of any kind. Perhaps it fears retribution..
The SW guy emailed to ask what version and SP number; 2008, SP3.1 I think. He might call tomorrow.
I hope he can suggest something more palatable than an update. That wastes at least a day, to get everyone updated, and to run the magical update wizard on our collection of SW files, which is rapidly approaching 36,000.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: ôsystem desktop application resourcesö?
Go to Tools > Add-ins to see which (if any) are active. Only activate the ones ones you need for the current SW session, and de-activate them at the end of the session.
Sounds like you need a multi-CPU/core, x64 system with oodles of RAM ... or you could just close down a few programs.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
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...
Some time after all that, the company installed a resident program (for synchronizing Outlook with some CRM webapp) that is really a pig about resources and cycles and such. That caused so many SW crashes that I was able to make a business case for getting a second computer just for Outlook and all the other administrivia.
So now the CAD computer runs _only_ (well, mostly) CAD.
It runs >>>much<<< better that way.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328269
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I am running win xp pro on a Precision workstation 670.
3.6 GHz processor
3 GB Ram
32 bit OS.
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I've also changed video drivers several times, including:
- one that came on the machine
- one suggested by and provided by SW
- one suggested by and provided by nVidia
They _all_ misbehaved similarly, expressing one or both of two behaviors:
- Feature area in the drawing editor updated with only new information, shown over an outdated image of some other operation.
- Feature tree area in the model editor updated with new information over the old information, or over an image of the Windows desktop, without the remainder of the feature tree being shown.
- Graphics area showing the Windows desktop instead of the SW graphics.
It all clearly had to do with SW writing to some page/pane/buffer, and the nVidia driver reading from a different page/pane/buffer, or merging stuff from the wrong pair of pages/panes/buffers as the system ran low on ... something.
It's probably a single line of errant code, somewhere in a huge pile of source, that works perfectly on a maxed-out system running only trivial test problems... and it's clearly in a part of the code that nVidia thinks is tried and true and keeps re-using.
I'm sure it's still there, but the bug doesn't bite so often with all the junk running somewhere else.
Business case:
- Count the number of SW crashes and restarts per week.
- Measure the typical recovery time.
- Multiply by your hourly rate.
- How many extra computers would that buy in a week?
My boss had the IT guys working on it in two days.
( Okay, I have a great boss. )
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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