How to Stop Crashing

For a long time I have had Solidworks (2003 all service packs)crash
2-4 times a day, then go for a few days with no problems & just as
suddenly return to the crash scene. The crashes can happen while in a
complex assembly,adding a centre-line to a drawing or just trying to
save.

Believe it or not, since installing Microsoft Flight Simulator on my
computer over a month ago I have only crashed twice & I can certainly
live with that.

Go flying

 

Richard Bremner quipped:

well, considering that half of all crashes are directly attributable to your
MS operating system, that's probably not too bad.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20277185,00.htm

Now, when you say MS flight Sim, do mean the full version, or the version in
MSOffice (I think it was in '97)?



-nick e.

 

but the big question is--

are you crashing SW less because of the installation, or because you're now
playing Flight Sim so much that you don't have as much time to "play" with
SW?

 

I am using a Compaq Evo N800v laptopP4 1.7 with 512 mb the video card
is an ATI Radeon 7500, Windows XP pro SP1 & I have tried stand alone
as well as networked. The other computer in the office is a P4 1.7, 1
gb, XP pro with a quadro card & it also crashes quite often - but it
doesn't now have the benifit of flight sim 2002.
I believe that one or more of the programs loaded on the computers has
installed dll or something that is older than the one required by
solidworks & installing flight has has replaced that or those files.

regards
Richard Bremner