You should add into your profile your hardware specs and versions of AC that you are using. I have no idea whether you are on mac or pc and which OS you are using.
If you are on Yosemite OS then only AC17 & 18 work well per Graphisoft.
I keep one computer not upgraded so I can more easily use files from previous versions of AC.
I'm still not clear what you mean by Jumpy.
Also, Perth in which country?
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System
"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"