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WIN8 freeze !

Anonymous
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archicad freezes every day on my windows 8 computer, it gets very slow or stops to be accessible. i have to kill the proces in the taskmanager.
a colleague has the same on windows 8, other colleagues with windows 7 don't have this problem

this is some frustrating problem and i don't know how to solve it. neither does our helpdesk at KUBUS

AC17, i still need to install the latest hotfix
Windows 8
4930K processor
32GB
GTX780
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
Try the latest hotfix and then report back if no change.
Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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hotfix#6 and it still freezes
Barry Kelly
Moderator
LolkeWijtsma wrote:
hotfix#6 and it still freezed once this morning
OK that wasn't it then.
When you get a freeze what does Archicad show as your available hard disc space and RAM?
Bottom right corner of screen (so long as you have the status bar turned on).
If these fgures are low then you are running out of resources.
If they are high then I am out of suggestions as I don't use Windows 8.
Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Zoltan Fuchs
Booster
Hi,

I had the same problem some time before.
I found that win8 has a problem with the xHCI usb driver. When archicad freeze then lost its connection with WIBU key. Check WibuKey connection under Control Panel/WibuKey. I disabled xHCI in BIOS and from then it works without freezing (but I havent usb3 port now)
It was AC15 x64 /Win8 x64

fuxy
i7-4770K / 16GB / GTX560 2GB / 512GB SSD / Win10 64bit
AC21 (HUN-64 bit) / Bimx Pro / Revit 2017
Anonymous
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thx for tips

but they don't work

- 100+GB free on harddisk
- 20+ GB free on RAM

- disabling xHCI don't work either

still on search for a solution;
- one of the files was very slow, it freezed but after waiting it was accesible again
- another file was unworkable slow
both problems were worked around by killing the process in taskmanager and reopen the files
- today i had to kill processes at least four times because of no responses

anyone?
Anonymous
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latest hotfix didn't work either
Anonymous
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Uninstalling Java and installing Java version 7u21 with do-not-update option doesn't work either

next tryout will be using the new chrome usbkey instead of the old blueish-green-one
Anonymous
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no problems yet with newer usbkey
Anonymous
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LolkeWijtsma wrote:
no problems yet with newer usbkey
still freezing