[SOLVED] New Refurbished Powerful Desktop slow when rendering PDFs

[szimmer100]

Hello, I bought this refurbished desktop recently:

• HP Z620 Workstation
• 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6GHz Eight-Core CPU's
• 96GB memory
• 256GB SSD
• 1TB Hard Drive
• NVIDIA Quadro 600
• Windows 10 Professional

However, when I open certain architectural PDFs (168 MB), it is slow to render each drawing on the PDF. Takes maybe 5 seconds for each page.

I updated all the drivers (windows, graphics card). I am using Adobe Acrobat Reader. I also tried PDF X-change Editor to open the PDF.

Is there a setting I should check for speeding up PDF usage for such a powerful machine?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Simon

 

[LORDPrometheus]

PDF load speed would be based on RAM and storage speeds primarily with CPU coming after that. a 168mb PDF is large but shouldn't be that intensive. If it is in specific PDFs and not all PDFs then make a note of what elements on screen are slow to load. Images are much slower than text because they are much larger files.

 

[faalin]

Disable 'Enable Protected Mode at startup' and 'Enable Enhanced Security' in the Preferences.


I had to do this on a few CAD computers at work.