Audacity 1.3 on Windows 7 SLOW RESPONSE time

[vsorensen]

Howdy! I have an Asus Windows 7 notebook laptop that I absolutely love. I am running the beta version of Audacity on it as recommended. However, I am experiencing a lot of frustration with EXTREMELY slow response time when giving any command in Audacity. Scroll left/right, Control F, Control Shift F, delete, and especially Fit to Screen. I did not have this problem with Audacity 1.2 on my XP laptop. How can I get quicker responses? Thanks!

[Gale Andrews]

Howdy! I have an Asus Windows 7 notebook laptop that I absolutely love. I am running the beta version of Audacity on it as recommended. However, I am experiencing a lot of frustration with EXTREMELY slow response time when giving any command in Audacity. Scroll left/right, Control F, Control Shift F, delete, and especially Fit to Screen. I did not have this problem with Audacity 1.2 on my XP laptop. How can I get quicker responses? Thanks!

There are at least two issues going on, one with automatic saving of project states (which feature 1.2 does not have) and another with screen redrawing, both when fitting/zooming projects and when dragging selections. These issues are already release noted (or will be in 1.3.14 Beta when released).

I suspect the fitting/zooming hangs would be largely the same in 1.2 if you were using it on Windows 7, and that Windows 7 is simply slower or you are running more other processes now or working with larger projects. One thing you can do that may help is to use 16-bit Default Sample Format (set it in the Quality Preferences). If you are exporting to 16-bit formats and not doing a lot of volume related editing that should not produce audible quality differences.

Delete (and Cut and other edits that have no progress dialogue) will probably be slower than in 1.2 due to doing more screen redrawing than we need to (we made these changes to fix other display bugs). The only real help again will be if you use 16-bit, have fewer/shorter tracks or shut down more processes.

If you are scrolling left/right with arrow keys that is an autosave issue - every single step change in the cursor position is currently autosaved. If you drag selections with the keyboard this will also be a problem for the same reason. On the positive side, excessive hangs typing rapidly into labels will be fixed in 1.3.14.



Gale