I’ve now tested startup times of various AutoCAD releases under Vista. Here are the results, alongside the XP results for ease of comparison:
| Release | First Startup |
Subsequent Startup |
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| XP | Vista | XP | Vista | |
| 12 | 8.6 | - | 8.2 | - |
| 13 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| 14 | 2.1 | - | 0.5 | - |
| 2002 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | - | 4.3 | - | 1.7 |
| 2005 | - | 7.9 | - | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 14.9 | 8.7 | 2.6 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 13.8 | 11.9 | 3.5 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 14.6 | 10.5 | 3.6 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 28.9 | 17.3 | 7.2 | 13.3 |
Same caveats as before, plus the following:
- Some AutoCAD releases were not installed on both XP and Vista partitions, hence the gaps in the table.
- The Vista tests were performed on the same PC as the XP tests.
- The system had a 1 GB USB key hanging out the back, giving Vista a theoretical startup benefit over XP.
- It’s very difficult to get meaningful performance results out of Vista because its SmartFetch and ReadyBoost technologies are doing their best to improve performance without user intervention. I may be a geek, but I’m not a good enough geek to be able to tell what Vista was doing behind my back during these tests.
- Repeated startups of AutoCAD 2009 revealed a gradual improvement in startup performance. Startup times went 17.3, 13.3, 12.5, 12.5, 11.0 seconds.
Make of that what you will. In short, in my tests AutoCAD 2009 startup time in Vista is still roughly double that of its recent predecessors and about ten times longer than older releases like R13 and 2002.
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7:59 am on October 6th, 2008 1
How do I load my old AutoCAD 97LT on my new computer with Vista?
8:08 am on October 6th, 2008 2
I’ve never done that, so I have no idea, sorry. But I’d start by turning off UAC before the install.
11:07 am on March 6th, 2009 3
i cannot install autocad 2009 onto vista ultimate it comes up with .net is not installed contact system administrator
2:12 pm on March 6th, 2009 4
AutoCAD installations install the .NET bits they need before starting. Maybe you have a beta .NET version getting in the way? If so, you could try uninstalling it and letting AutoCAD install it for you. I’m guessing, and any steps you take are at your own risk. This is really the sort of thing your reseller should help you with.
3:56 am on March 26th, 2009 5
Is ther any way to get AutoCAD14 to run on Vista
11:49 am on March 26th, 2009 6
It didn’t want to run for me, sorry.
3:41 pm on May 6th, 2009 7
Gerald, check out this post from Shaan Hurley:
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/07/autocad-r14-and.html