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Orcad Capture performance

Cantstandya

Hi all,

In my company we are more and more struggling with bad Orcad Capture performance on our PCs. Capture becomes laggy when wiring and takes long time to boot. This affects indirecly our product quality as we are constanly distracted by the lagging. Boot time is around 2 minutes with license selection window popping up. Booting is a bit quicker when having selected default license suite earlier, but still boot can take around 1 minute.

Opening a ~15MB DSN file at home through VPN from a network drive at work is impossible. Then Capture lags for 5 minutes and the capture.exe process is not responding according to the task manager. A 15MB file should be fairly easy to handle these days - unless the SW is poorly written or something.

It seems to me that Orcad Capture is affecting the multitasking performance of Windows. Sometimes when Capture is lagging some other programs are lagging/hanging as well. Could there be som old 16/32 bit drivers in Capture messing up the Windows multitasking? Actually Capture is hanging right now and the Notpad++ program I am drafting this post in is also lagging(!). They are greyed out, showing not responding in Task manager and I get a spinning mouse wheel.

Our PCs seems to get more and more laggy the longer since last PC reboot. This could be due to the PC itself. Not sure if this is due to Capture. Maybe a combination. A PC reboot makes the performace normally a bit better.

We are running Lenovo X1 Gen9 16GB RAM. We are not hitting the roof on disk, memory or CPU at all. But it seems to be something in the background that messes stuff up.

We are running 17.4 hotfix 37. I just tried 23.1 now, but no noticable improvement.

We have tried to disable all autoloading tcl files, but doesnt seem to improve the performance.

There seems to be some suspended capture.exe processes piling up in the task manager. I am not able to kill them. Right now I have five. Could this be a symptom of something?

Someone else struggling with this?

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  • ggeorgg
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    We are also struggling a bit with the performance of Capture CIS, especially since the 17.4 release. Version 16.6 was much faster. I know it it recommended to have a graphic card, but our machines to not have it.

    Regarding the license: I also have to wait for roughly 15 seconds after starting capture until the license selection window pops up. I monitored the network traffic and If I am right, I think capture also connects to the licence server again from time to time to check the license again. In my opinion, this could be a reason why capture is lagging from time to time. 

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  • ggeorgg
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    We are also struggling a bit with the performance of Capture CIS, especially since the 17.4 release. Version 16.6 was much faster. I know it it recommended to have a graphic card, but our machines to not have it.

    Regarding the license: I also have to wait for roughly 15 seconds after starting capture until the license selection window pops up. I monitored the network traffic and If I am right, I think capture also connects to the licence server again from time to time to check the license again. In my opinion, this could be a reason why capture is lagging from time to time. 

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