Article - CS42197

It takes a long time to launch Creo Parametric

Modified: 24-Jun-2025   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 4.0 to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
  • Creo Schematics 1.0 to 9.0

Description

  • It takes a long time (about 3 minutes) to launch Pro/ENGINEER
  • It takes a long time (about 4 minutes) to launch.
  • Launch is hanging never fully opens
  • Creo Parametric always be no response even simple operations
  • Unable to start Creo Parametric 4.0 while Creo Parametric 5.0/6.0 can be started on the same machine
  • Creo 7.0 is very slow to start and it takes about 5-10 minutes. Is there any way to speed up the startup?
  • Application graphics does not start / launch even though xtop.exe is observed being initiated in Task Manager > Details
  • Launch is hanging never fully opens
  • Application takes long time to launch as xtop.exe is seen stagnant at 22,000 KB ~ 23,000 KB of private memory in Windows Task Manager
  • Creo Parametric would be no response frequently during working with it
  • Creo Parametric graphics does not launch even though xtop.exe is started while configured to TRIAD license server
  • It takes long time to launch although the application was working fine earlier.
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