PD 16.5 SP03 PL03 slowness after reverse engineering

Question

Little background:
We were using PD 16.5 SP03 PL01 and faced a lot of problems like error messages, exception error, slowness etc. I was recommended on this forum to apply patch PL03 to solve the problems. I have applied the patch PL03.
Current Problems:
(1) When we try to reverse engineer even one single table, first PD becomes very slow and if we don't save and continue to work, we will get 'PDShell not working' message and PD will just shut down.
It doesn't matter how big the table is, it might have 30 columns or it might have 100 columns. It definitely becomes very slow once reverse engineering has been done.
(2) If we are creating a new entity in LDM or a table in PDM and we are working on it for some time meaning adding 30 attributes. After a while, it will fail to save and you have to restart PD. If you are working on existing model, doing some modification work then it's fine. But the moment you start adding entities/tables, attributes/columns, it will fail to save eventually so we have to be careful all the time and to save frequently i.e. after adding 3-4 attributes/columns, because we know at some point it is going to fail saving and we will have to restart PD and that is very time consuming.
I was hoping the latest patch PL03 would have solved these problems. We have a couple of other colleagues facing the same problems, so it's just not me.
P.S.: We are using Teradata V14 and PD version is 16.5.3.3 and it's 32-bit.
Is there any solution for this problem? Is it a common problem?
Thanks,
Perry.

Answer 1

Thank you Benoit!
Downloading now.
Btw. concerning the PD crashes: it turned out to be a problem with hardware accelerated graphics.
I ran PD from a Windows Virtual Machine using VMWare Fusion.
VMWare Fusion supports hardware accelerated graphics in the VM - if and only if you the VMWare tools running inside the VM are properly corresponding to the VMWare Fusion version hosting the VM.
For me this was not the case, since the VMWare tools did not properly auto-update.
As a result, with 3D hardware acceleration activated in the VMWare Fusion Settings, every program that potentially makes use of hardware accelerated graphics (PD, Visio, Internet Explorer etc.) crashed.
Not sure this helps anyone out there. But if you are facing PD crashes and also face crashes of other programs like Internet Explorer or Visio, malfunctioning hardware acceleration might be the cause of it.
Cheers,
Florian