topic Re: CPU running 50% in Idle in Installation & update

CPU running 50% in Idle

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:42:16 GMT

Im running archicad 11 and have been since it came out. Today it is not running very well. When i open a new archicad file the CPU runs at 50% without doing anything and then peaks at 100% for 10-15 seconds when im am working on it, making it unusable.

any suggestions?

Re: CPU running 50% in Idle

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:23:45 GMT

i have tried uninstalling, windows rollback.... nothing seems to be working.

has anyone had this problem before???
Any suggestions?

Re: CPU running 50% in Idle

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:37:13 GMT

any suggestions at all...............?

Re: CPU running 50% in Idle

Thomas Holm — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:12:22 GMT

OK total shot in the dark - do a New and Reset so that everything goes back to the installed defaults. And clean out any libraries, add-ons etc except the defaults.

Re: CPU running 50% in Idle

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:36:06 GMT

Hi.
I was having the same problem with my Dell XPS600 with a PentiumD 3.0 ghz in it.
I tried everything. Had a proffesional go through my computer settings. Reintalled system software a zillion times. Spoke with archicad technical support for an extended period. No solutions. Processors would rest at 50% or more when Archicad was open then spike to 100%. I had the most problems in the 2D window. 3D worked fine
I built a new computer with a core 2 duo and all problems have gone away. My much older computer without the d processor still works fairly well with Archicad.
I think the pentium D dual processors don't work properly with archicad.
I think code is using the processors incorrectly.

Good Luck with this. Let me know if you figure it out. I sold my Pentium D Dell.

Re: CPU running 50% in Idle

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:04:17 GMT

after extensive investigation and talking with archicad support i managed to figure out the problem. I down loaded a new graphics driver from the NIVDIA website and it seems to have fixed the problem - drivers were up to date too. quite simple in the end.

archicad is running really well now.