v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times
Dear Xara...
With two or three documents on the Document Tab, when I now open my Xara Desktop application, I am now getting a much slower access time being delayed with slow "adding colours to documet" messages.
It gets slow, the more documents open.
With two unsaved, simple documents, I have a delay of almost 10 seconds on a fast machine.
Acorn
Re: v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times
Your timing was perfect, Acorn. I hadn't upgraded from 16.2 so I timed the start up with 3 tabs.
From clicking the icon to fully loaded:
16.2 - 7.57 seconds
16.3 - 24.56 best, 28.50 worst out of 3 starts.
i7 3.4GHz - 16GB RAM, 256 NVMe (3500/3300 read/write)
Re: v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times
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Originally Posted by
Chris M
Your timing was perfect, Acorn. I hadn't upgraded from 16.2 so I timed the start up with 3 tabs.
From clicking the icon to fully loaded:
16.2 - 7.57 seconds
16.3 - 24.56 best, 28.50 worst out of 3 starts.
i7 3.4GHz - 16GB RAM, 256 NVMe (3500/3300 read/write)
Excellent proof Chris, over three times slower.
Acorn
Re: v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times
Closed all the tabs and opened to a blank work area:
Best - 23.09
Worst - 27.87
5 starts. Same observations as yourself, hangs at 97% Adding Colours To Document.
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I'm not getting any lag/hang with the trial version... so I guess the issue is with the stuff you don't get in the trial
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
I'm not getting any lag/hang with the trial version... so I guess the issue is with the stuff you don't get in the trial
Possibly the difference between overwriting vs fresh install? It loads an existing project file without issue. It appears to be just the initial starting up process.
Re: v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times
could be.. with the trial it's not easy to measure start up time but it's no slower than I would have expected..
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Hi Acorn,
just to add some detail from my system regarding start up times (tried both settings two times after clean reboot and waiting for more than one minute).
Startup with internet connetion enabled takes about 13 seconds.
Startup with internet connetion disabled takes about 5 seconds.
Didn't check before installation of 16.3.
Installed from download location given in announcement (just as you did).
Have a quite fast internet connetion, maybe that might explain the still acceptable 13 seconds.
Maybe you also could try with internet plug removed, just to get an impression?
BTW: In my current installation V12 starts in 29 seconds with internet enabled (have to click away one ad and wait for check for updates), and in 15 seconds with internet disabled (each only tried once). So V16 to me is an improvement.
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again for what it is worth my XDP 15.5, blocked in firewall, starts up in 3 seconds
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I too have experienced a longer start up due to the adding colors to document. Even if the only document open has no content.
This was an issue many versions ago and it appears to be back.