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Text input really slow!

Anonymous
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Wondered if any one can help? I use 8.1 at work and have recently purchased a student version of 9 (I am a part-time architectural technology student). Everything seems to be fine with it except when I key in text - it takes forever for the characters to appear!!

Any ideas?
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Anonymous
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What are the specs of your computer?
Anonymous
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AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 1024MB, 256MB GeForce NVIDIA 6000 i think?? , 200GB RAM - its only about 6 months old. I'm currently at work so dont have exact spec
Anonymous
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Check first the task manager. You can check there CPU condition.
And than check your update-version.
AC9 works normaly very fine with hardware better than with AC 8.1
Anonymous
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I Have checked my version and it is up to date, I have also checked that my cpu isnt over working - seems to be fine.

Any ideas? Its really getting to me.
Anonymous
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I noticed the same thing when I upgraded to 9 on my Mac Titanium laptop, but wrote it off to the age of the laptop combined with what I assume is a more memory- and processor-intensive version of Archicad. My laptop is a 2002 550mhz titanium with 512mb ram, so its pretty old. Also, have yhou checked if your hard drive is almost full? This slows down performance.
Link
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AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 1024MB, 256MB GeForce NVIDIA 6000 i think?? , 200GB RAM - its only about 6 months old.
200Gb RAM!!

Even Matthew should be happy with that!

What font are you using?

Cheers,
Link.
Anonymous
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mattjc wrote:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 1024MB, 256MB GeForce NVIDIA 6000 i think?? , 200GB RAM - its only about 6 months old. I'm currently at work so dont have exact spec
Seems adequate for text entry, even for MS Word.

It is a strange problem. It happens only with ArchiCAD?

The only thing I can imagine that would specifically slow down text entry would be some weird spyware that is sending all your architectural notes to a some hacker site in Uzbekistan.
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Link wrote:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 1024MB, 256MB GeForce NVIDIA 6000 i think?? , 200GB RAM - its only about 6 months old.
200Gb RAM!!

Even Matthew should be happy with that!
Heck, I wish I had that much hard drive in my modest little machine.