solidworks high CPU usage

[MechatroPro]

hello everyone.
whenever i move my mouse over the graphics area, even in an emty part, my CPU usage jumps to 50% which is the maximum for a multicore processor. is there a problem here or it's solidworks' normal behavior? (SW09/10,xp,7)

 

[Gurjjeet]

I checked mine, it goes upto 30% but remember
1.It is short lived spike.
2.it is only one core, other core is still sitting idle/unaffected.

Mine is SWX 2008 (WIN XP 64bit)

 

[MechatroPro]

in my case, CPU usage remains 50% on one core until i stop hovering over graphics area. it means that while modeling my CPU usage is always at peak on one core.

 

[Theophilus]

Which graphics card (and driver) are you using? Sounds like some processing power that should go to the card is being put onto your CPU.



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.

 

[SBaugh]

Check your processes to see if its SW using the CPU or maybe something else. We had a problem today that a file (even when not in use) when selected in explorer caused the another *.exe from SW (not SLDWORKS.exe) and it caused the CPU to stay at 50% until I killed the process. But of course if we clicked the file the process repeated.

We had to remove the file through a DOS prompt to stop this from happening. So checking the processes might help you find the solution.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[woolly]

We use Spotlight on windows a much better monitor to see what is going on with the whole system resources. A freeware tool and very useful indeed much better than the standard task manager.

http://www.quest.com/spotlight/overview.aspx

http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-windows/