Testing performance under Vista can be an interesting experience. The trouble is, Vista tries to improve its performance by observing what you do and caching it for later use in case you do it again. This leads to something akin to the observer effect in science, where the very act of observing something has [...]
 15 March 2008, 10:32 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance, User Interface, Vista | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance One of the things I like least about AutoCAD 2009 (at least in Release Candidate form) is that I find it very “sticky”. That is, I find myself having to wait for an instant here, then again there, yet again over there. Most of my testing has been on a middle-aged Pentium 4 (3.0 [...] 15 March 2008, 2:30 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, CUI, Performance, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance For many 3D users of AutoCAD, the ViewCube is likely to be the most useful new thing in AutoCAD 2009. There are a couple of problems with it, at least in the Release Candidate: It does not work in 2D wireframe mode (which is, paradoxically, where 90% of my 3D work is done). You [...] 10 March 2008, 9:53 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance, User Interface, ViewCube | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance 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 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 March 2008, 9:27 pm |  9 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance, Vista | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance This table shows both the initial and subsequent startup times for various releases. Most of the qualifications and caveats from my AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 6 – Initial Startup Time post still apply here. Release First Startup Subsequent Startup 12 8.6 8.2 13 2.6 1.3 14 2.1 0.5 2002 3.2 0.6 [...] 4 March 2008, 11:05 am | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance One thing you’ll notice (and dislike) right away with AutoCAD 2009 is that it takes a lot longer to get started. How much longer? About twice as long as recent releases, or about ten times longer than ancient speed demon Release 13. (I bet a 1994 AutoCAD user transported forward in time would be [...] 3 March 2008, 10:25 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance |
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