[Maximus3D]

Hi Rhinosaurs

Any of you work with Rhino 4, latest beta ? i do and i have a big bad problem with it. And i'm not sure if it'd due to my system or because of Rhino which is why i ask here if any of you guys or girls have problems with extreme slowness when you do anything with the latest betarelease. Do you ?! it's pretty much unusuable right now

As a example, to create a simple sphere can take 40 seconds until it appear on screen, and a boolean operation between two objects can take about 10-15 min to calculate. I have no idea what's going on but it's bugging me alot

Anyone else experienced issues like this ?!

/ Max

[NicoR44]

Hi Max, I will download the latest version and check.
I will let you know later on.

[NicoR44]

No problems here Max

[Maximus3D]

Really ? damn! ok thanks for testing, then i must have some problems either with my hardware or my XP but i just reinstalled XP sigh.. oh well i can't model when it behaves this horribly slow.

Thanks again Nico, i appreciate you took the time to test it.

/ Max

[NicoR44]

Hey Max, but you do still have Rhino 3 do you?

[Maximus3D]

Sure i do but it's such a cap on my workflow i built up around 4.0 in the past months that going back and starting over in 3.0 would be a big setback so i'm trying to avoid that. However i'm not sure if my hardware is acting up now and causing many programs to not run the way they're supposed to damn!

/ Max

[ricardo]

Max, I recommend you posting to the rhino NG, they could help you really quick - weekend included.

Ricardo

[MarkM]

Hey Max,
Did you have this problem before reinstalling windows xp? What’s your system specs?

[Maximus3D]

Yes ricardo i know i should post there but i'm beginning to think it's my hardware which gone weird and started to make all these strange things happen since all programs are affected and not just Rhino itself.

All these problems started when i got the virus some weeks ago and even after i formatted the system has been acting weirdly even tho i removed the virus, formatted it clean 3 or 4 times now and reinstalled it all over again it's still not the same as before

And i cannot think of what to do anymore, i tried everything i can think of to solve this but i see no more solutions, it's wierd.. in Rhino it's like the meshing for the shaded preview takes forever for it to calculate. Sigh

Anyways, thanks for your tips and suggestions guys. I appreciate those and i'll see if i can find some other way to solve this, but at the moment i'm completly clueless

Most annoying thing is that i can't take on or finish any work when it behaves this crappy.

/ Max

[ivox3]

Max are you sure this isn't something to do with rhino creating heavy render meshes?

also: what kind of services are running in the background?

maybe a screenshot and we can filter out the bad ones ......

[Maximus3D]

Chris, i seen now in the past days that this problem doesn't only happen with Rhino anymore, it happens with all programs and it's very weird i can run some programs fine for a few while but if i stress the system too much it's process stops responding and i have to terminate it manually.

And a process which stopped responding has a cpu usage of maximum 50%, it never goes up to 100% so i'm a bit scared that my cpu has some problems i just don't know and i tried just about everything except clocking down my cpu and turning off HT which i'll be testing probably tonight.

/ Max

[NicoR44]

so i'm a bit scared that my cpu has some problems

ouwch, I hope not

[ivox3]

it could be hardware related, ......maybe you should get down & dirty and pull the cpu, reseat it, clean the fans, clean the memory contacts w/alcohol etc ....... ?

Stuff does eventually fail ....... you just have to be brave enough to look under the hood, .....so to speak.

[Maximus3D]

It sucks, well first test was to disable HT in the bios and so far that seems to work as now Rhino runs smooth without freezing, my browser ain't crashing either and the rest looks like it's stable, damn! that would mean my cpu is broken :( this sucks!

You're right Chris, that was my next plan to chop the computer up in pieces and clean it out if HT didn't cause the problem. But the way it looks now it gotta be HT which does it. I so much wish i owned a Mac (grrr!)

Weird thing is that my cpu ain't old either..

Thanks for your help guys.

/ Max

[ivox3]

if it isn't old, then is it under some type of warranty?