Is anyone else having stability problems with Solidoworks 2009 x64? Lots of random crashes here. We are working with tech support but I was wondering if it was wide spread.
I’m using SW09 x64 on Vista, and aside from an occasional corrupt file that crashes frequently, I haven’t had any problem with random crashes. You’ve probably got a driver conflict. I’d start uninstalling stuff until the crash goes away.
I get crashes on not only sw09 but on a lot of programs including ms office. I read somewhere to make sure if you are running Office 2007 and SW09 to make sure Office is not being run in compatibility mode.
OS re-install is being done this evening. Office 2007 and SW09-SP1 will be installed tomorrow morning. Results of testing probably won’t be available till early next week.
Chris Serran
2:01 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
My vista machine is at home so I can’t double check. I believe you right click on the icon of the program and one of the tabs has a dropdown menu with something like “Run in compatibility mode for:” and a list appears.
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CBL 9:54 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink
Not so much SW09 x64, but Vista x64.
I am having one machine here reformatted tonight and the OS re-installed because of errors in the OS log possibly affecting MS Office and SW.
Hopefully that will sort things out.
Chris Serran 10:40 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink
I haven’t upgraded yet, but I haven’t heard of too many issues.
mattl 11:28 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink
I’m using SW09 x64 on Vista, and aside from an occasional corrupt file that crashes frequently, I haven’t had any problem with random crashes. You’ve probably got a driver conflict. I’d start uninstalling stuff until the crash goes away.
jaraak 11:43 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink
I get crashes on not only sw09 but on a lot of programs including ms office. I read somewhere to make sure if you are running Office 2007 and SW09 to make sure Office is not being run in compatibility mode.
Any luck CBL???
Muggs 1:21 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
CBL, I’m having the same issues on Vista x64 with MS Office 2007 and SW.
So please keep us (me) posted as to how the reinstall of Vista goes.
Muggs 1:51 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
jaraak,
Office 2007 compatibility mode?
How do I check that?
CBL 2:00 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
OS re-install is being done this evening. Office 2007 and SW09-SP1 will be installed tomorrow morning. Results of testing probably won’t be available till early next week.
Chris Serran 2:01 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
My vista machine is at home so I can’t double check. I believe you right click on the icon of the program and one of the tabs has a dropdown menu with something like “Run in compatibility mode for:” and a list appears.
brian 2:19 pm on December 11, 2008 Permalink
Running SolidWorks 2009 x64 SP1.0 on XPx64; solid as a rock here!
Matt 7:26 am on December 12, 2008 Permalink
I should have specified:
SW 2009 x64 SP1.0
XP 64
Office 2007
All of this was a clean install as of about two weeks ago.
We are working with our reseller, sending in error dumps etc.
We are getting tons of random crashes. Most just dump out of SW and you have to restart the machine. One or two runtime environment errors.
We are doing VERY basic stuff. Crashing on parts with 10 or so features etc.
I wish we had Brian’s setup.