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Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

(OP)
Can anyone help me get Pro/E 2001 to start up any quicker.  I have 512MB ram, my initial environment is set to 4096, 64MB Nvidia video card, OpenGL graphics setting in config.pro.  Other than that I don't know what other settings I could change to help speed up start up.  It takes about 5-6 minutes to start up.  Any suggestioons????

Thanks
Brad

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

Check your config.pro for anything that might slow you down. Also, are you running ProE on a locked or floating license?

steve

http://www.3dlogix.com

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

(OP)
I am running on a locked license.  At work we have have it running on 4 computers with Windows NT, 2000, 98 and XP and it works fine. We all use the same config.pro file.  At home I use Windows ME.  Thanks

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

The same thing was happening to me, it was my config.pro file, it was huge. Huge for the config.pro anyway, it was around 1 Meg. What happened was everytime I saved a mapkey it duplicated it. Contacted my sysadmin about it and he fixed the problem. You may look at the size of your config.pro.

Just my .02 ;)

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

This is quite often to do with file paths in the config.pro. If proE cannot find the paths / files it needs, then it will slow at install and take an age.
Also, check that your trail files are not being created accross the network, but in a temp folder specified in your config.pro file. Ideally something like c:\temp or c:\trails.
Defragmenting the installation can make a difference to startup times, although i doubt 5-6 mins worth. Email your configs to me if you want me to have a look to see if i can find anything amiss.

James

James Harbidge
Applications Engineer
RAND Worldwide
jharbidge@rand.com

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

If you're all using the same config.pro it seems strange that it's slow on this one box. It does sound like a config.pro issue.
Try these:
1) remove graphics open_gl, the graphics option hasn't been needed since release 17.
2) remove stale search paths, or remove all of them to a search.pro file and try running without any before putting them back in again with the config.pro option search_path_file
3) check cpu and memory usage in the task manager while it's starting up. If it's not much then Pro/E is doing stuff out on the network.
4) Add nt_cache_dirs yes to config.pro and see if that speeds it up.

Good luck,

Bruce Jackson
www.jscad.co.uk

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

Had a similar problem with slow startup where loading without config.pro/win and with win32_gdi didn't help. After reinstalling it worked fine...

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

i have the same problem of slow start up. i have found it is due to duplication of mapkeys in the config.pro. but i don't know how to solve this problem.
can any one help me to solve it?

thanks in advance

RE: Pro/E 2001 takes forever to start up

We had the problem with slow startup (3 min.), but only on computers with Mechanica installed. Our Mechanica installation had a System Variable setting "HOMEPATH" set to "\proeng\home", after deleting this the startup was reduced to less than 30 sec.

Regards Gunnar

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