Multisim 11 - slow simulation (start and stop)

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Rizard

New Member

• Jan 15, 2012

• #1

Hi,

Multisim is bulliying me. It is slower then with any other student in my class.
Is it my 5400rpm hd, is it my Core i5 or my 8gigs of RAM?
It'll probably be a setting or 2, either in windows or Multisim but I'm clueless on that matter.

Anyone ever experienced slow simulations? (only a few adders, not gates, displays, logic analyzer and word generator)

thnx in advance

 

Sceadwian

Banned

• Jan 15, 2012

• #2

Compare the settings on your machine to the ones on another machine.

 

R

Rizard

New Member

• Jan 15, 2012

• #3

The settins in Multisim are the same. What settings in windows do you want me to check?

 

alec_t

Well-Known Member

Most Helpful Member

• Jan 15, 2012

• #4

Speed is also a function of how many processes are running in the background. Press Ctrl/Alt/Del and compare the pop-up list with that of another PC.
Simulations generate a lot of data which is stored on the disc. If your disc is nearly full that will slow things down.

 

R

Rizard

New Member

• Jan 15, 2012

• #5

Indeed, that may be an issue although Windows states 307GB free out of 596
Maybe I should be blaming the 5400rpm slow hd

 

Last edited: Jan 15, 2012

Sceadwian

Banned

• Jan 16, 2012

• #6

The hard drive should have absolutely nothing to do with simulation speed, it's processor intensive not disk intensive.