How to speed up MathCAD

[IFRs]

My MathCAD seems really slow. R13 on a duo-core Pentium at 2Ghz, 2GB Ram, 200Gb hard drive. I don't have any solve blocks, matrix calculations or graphs. I only reference two external text files. No recursive calculations and very little Boolean logic. A few simple If statements, otherwise just * + - / square root and square. It just seems to take too long. I always save as R12.mcd because the load and save was too slow otherwise. What can be done to speed up calculations?

 

[IRstuff]

Not mich. Do you have the most recent update?

TTFN

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[IFRs]

My Help/About says Mathcad, version 13.1 (604040953). Is that the latest version?

 

[IRstuff]

Sounds about right.

I'm running a 1 GHz P4, but it's only a bit slow. You might try disabling hardware acceleration on the graphics and mouse.

TTFN

FAQ731-376

 

[miecz]

Try loosening your Constraint Tolerance and Convergence Tolerance. I've found these to have a significant impact on calculation time when taking integrals.

 

[davidbeach]

Is that the latest version?

Many would say that the latest version is 11.2a; all "newer" are still in beta. ;-)