ArchiCAD 9 needs 25-30 minutes to start

[Anonymous]

Dear ArchiCAD 9 Users,
since 2 weeks I work on ArchiCAD 9 and until now I just have a Problem with starting... it needs 25-30 minutes to start?!? Do you know this Problem?
I use Windows XP pro SP2, ArchiCAD 9, Norton Internet Security 2004, Spybot, MS Word XP, Excel 97, Outlook 2003, photoshop elements, as my daily programs...
when it starts it works excellent!

my Hardware:
HP Pavilion zx5051, 3.02 Ghz, 512 RAM, Wireless Network for Internet, 80 GB Harddisk, USB-Dongle

thanx 4 any help,

best regards,

Christian Neuner

[Balazs Simonyi]

Christian wrote:
80 GB Harddisk

Just an idea: does the harddisk have partitions on it? How much free space is there? How big is your swap file in windows, and in InternetExplorer? It can be the slow harddrive IMHO

I hope, it helps!
Balazs

[Greg Kmethy]

Just to check, try once to turn off all security applications to see if it matters. ArchiCAD does touch quite a few files while opening (even so if the library is not a PLA but individual files), and if a virus checker is monitoring all I/O actions -and does it slow- then that could be a problem.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Following up on Greg and Balazs' suggestions further: since you are on XP, when AC 9 starts up, there is an 'issue' that it installs a printer driver (Amyuni PDF) every single time. This creates a system restore point. Your security settings may be protecting you from driver installations, perhaps, too.

So, yes, definitely disable all security apps and see what happens.

Another possibility, mentioned by others elsewhere, is that you might have a mapped network drive that is not connected.

Also: is anything else running on your computer when you start AC (you mention many other applications). Given your 512MB memory, a lot of swapping could be taking place and perhaps your hard disk is fragmented and/or as Balazs wonders, tight on space.

Karl

PS Also, once you resolve this issue, 512MB RAM is the minimum for XP Pro to perform reasonably. Things will run OK, but you will be happier if you can boost your memory.

[Anonymous]

Thank you - merry christmas to you and your families I switched off Norton Security 2004 (including Anti Virus) and spybot (search and destroy) it was really a security program now it needs about 10 seconds to start archicad 9, I will find out which settings are responsible for this problem and will post it to you all.
First Test: Norton Internet Security is blocking the start 25 minutes... I will have to make a better configuration....

Thank you again!!!
best regards from Lagos in the Algarve
- southwestern Europe - portugal

Christian Neuner

[LiHigh]

It's happenned to me too. I can assure you that the culprit is Norton Internet Security. So, I swithed to Avast AV.

[Anonymous]

Is this happening to anyone on a mac platform?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Not Here.