v16.3 - Slow Start-up Times

[Acorn]

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

[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)

[Acorn]

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

[Chris M]

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.

[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

[Chris M]

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.