Suddenly loading of objects and scenes has slowed to a crawl.  A scene, which used to load in less than a minute, is taking several minutes.  I use Carrara Pro 7.1.1

Last night I tried to load a complex scene, which used to load fine, and had to close down Carrara after more than ten minutes of hard drive thrashing.  There is very little CPU use (hovering around 1%) but constant disk reads.  Has anyone else experienced this?  Any ideas to correct?

Thanks for any assistance.

Try to desfragment your hard drive and let know if this help.

I have the same thing (or had, before doing my system re-install, don't know if I still DO.), especially when loading a Stonemason scene.

I think it's the amount of information that comes with a particular scene, for it doesn't overload when the simplistic things are imported into a blank plane one by one-only a collection of models/textures/shaders.

Defragging didn't help my computer at all-I used Carrara 3D Express, and 7 Express, and now 6 Pro.  I'll stop by after getting it re-uploaded and see if the loading time still extends beyond impossible.

Dar

Thanks for the input.  Among the first things I did was to defrag (I have more that 50% free space on both my C: Drive and in my Raid Array).  I also ran malware and adware tools, windows update, turned monitoring off the drives for Photoshop elements and closed all unecessary programs in the system tray.

The strange thing is that I have loaded this scene many times without difficulty.  This is a new phenomena and I'm stuck.

When it's trying to load there is very little CPU activity, plenty of RAM left and the page file never gets very big (relatively speaking).  Yet the drives are thrashing away!

If I can't figure it out I will have to do a complete re-install of Carrara, and then content.

Really looking foward to that!

Klebnor

Others scenes happen the same thing?

No, most other scenes seem to load as normal.  I have reinstalled the offending scene (First Class Cabin from DAZ) without any improvement.  I am beginning to wonder if the relatively quick openings where second tries, when textures remained loaded in memory.  Perhaps this particular scene simply takes over 10 minutes to load.

Klebnor

Another thing you can try.  Clean your internet files and browser, temp,registery etc using a good software program (McAfee etc).  I find that when Carrara or Poser begins acting weird, that's the first thing I do.  Usually works. 

Looks like your scene is trying to load into a space that is aready occupied by junk.  Jan 

For windows a tip: delete your scratch file. Set it to zero, reset the computer and again add the swap file... sometimes the swap file get very problematic.