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Performance degradation in Autodesk Inventor when running side by side with Autodesk Showcase

Issue

When running Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Showcase side by side, you may observe degradation in performance and responsiveness in Autodesk Inventor.

Solution

Autodesk Showcase uses the graphics card to its full potential. 

This may sometimes lead to other applications not having enough resources to maintain acceptable performance and responsiveness. 

In particular, the Task UI feature in Showcase is most associated with such performance degradation in other products.  

Turning this Showcase feature off by temporarily toggling Options -> Show Task UI  (Q) will restore the previous performance levels in Autodesk Inventor.

This issue also has been resolved in Showcase 2013 SP1 and it can be downloaded here:

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL19387644

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  • Document Information

    Published date: 2012-May-11
    ID: TS19334343

     

    Applies to:
    Autodesk Factory Design Suite Premium 2013
    Autodesk Factory Design Suite Ultimate 2013
    Autodesk® Inventor® 2013
    Autodesk® Inventor® Professional 2013
    Autodesk Product Design Suite Premium 2013
    Autodesk Product Design Suite Standard 2013
    Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate 2013
    Autodesk® Showcase™ 2013