Faster windows/GUI

Landryan · October 3rd, 2017, 01:44 PM

It takes my laptop some time to open a tab or switch between tabs. I think it's all the DevExpress overheads. Unfortunately, this breaks up the narrative a bit so I use RW less in-session as I would like.

Is there a way to change the GUI to use a low-cpu theme instead of the devExpress windows? At least provide an option to have a bear bones interface circa Windows 2000 or something.

On the other hand, if you can find a way of speeding up the tabs without downgrading the gui of course that would also be okay!

Farling · October 3rd, 2017, 02:31 PM

+1 for this. Switching tabs should be instant!

Acenoid · October 4th, 2017, 10:22 AM

+100e27

Greebo · October 4th, 2017, 09:06 PM

+1 from me, too.

Bidmaron · October 5th, 2017, 02:46 AM

+1 here

Merion · October 5th, 2017, 01:06 PM

+1

I already thought about upgrading to a new laptop, but I fear the result would be disappointing as this takes a significant amount of time even on my high-end gaming desktop.

Acenoid · October 5th, 2017, 01:57 PM

try moving rw to a flash drive

Happydevil43 · October 5th, 2017, 04:15 PM

As far as I know RW is a 32bit application, I think moving it to a 64Bit application may have some benefit here as well.

I get a lot of random crashes, which the only thing I can attribute it to, is memory management.

so better memory management, faster application, or that's what the boffins at work tell me anyway.

MNBlockHead · October 6th, 2017, 01:15 AM

RW is a bit sluggish and would sometime crash on my Lenovo x230. On my Dell XPS it runs great. The big difference is my XPS has flash memory. RW performs much better on a flash drive.

Farling · October 6th, 2017, 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MNBlockHead

RW is a bit sluggish and would sometime crash on my Lenovo x230. On my Dell XPS it runs great. The big difference is my XPS has flash memory. RW performs much better on a flash drive.

It doesn't run great on my XPS 12, despite it having an SDD. Switching tabs is too slow during a gaming session (tolerable during preparation).

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Farling Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Greater London, UK Posts: 2,623 October 3rd, 2017, 02:31 PM	+1 for this. Switching tabs should be instant! Farling Author of the Realm Works Import tool, Realm Works Output tool and Realm Works to Foundry module Donations gratefully received via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Paypal
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Acenoid Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 798 October 4th, 2017, 10:22 AM	+100e27 Join the (unofficial) Realm-Works IRC Chat: #realm-works on the Rizon Network (https://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Servers) -> Browser Client: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net
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Greebo Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Germany Posts: 282 October 4th, 2017, 09:06 PM	+1 from me, too. Supporting Calendar Campaigner Tools: Realm Works, Campaign Cartographer 3+ and Add-ons, MapTools Games: home brew world, Lord of the Rings (CODA), Shadowrun, Earthdawn
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Bidmaron Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 468 October 5th, 2017, 02:46 AM	+1 here
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Merion Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Germany, so please bear with my English Posts: 378 October 5th, 2017, 01:06 PM	+1 I already thought about upgrading to a new laptop, but I fear the result would be disappointing as this takes a significant amount of time even on my high-end gaming desktop.
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Acenoid Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 798 October 5th, 2017, 01:57 PM	try moving rw to a flash drive Join the (unofficial) Realm-Works IRC Chat: #realm-works on the Rizon Network (https://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Servers) -> Browser Client: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net
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Happydevil43 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 161 October 5th, 2017, 04:15 PM	As far as I know RW is a 32bit application, I think moving it to a 64Bit application may have some benefit here as well. I get a lot of random crashes, which the only thing I can attribute it to, is memory management. so better memory management, faster application, or that's what the boffins at work tell me anyway.
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MNBlockHead Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Twin Cities Area, MN, USA Posts: 1,325 October 6th, 2017, 01:15 AM	RW is a bit sluggish and would sometime crash on my Lenovo x230. On my Dell XPS it runs great. The big difference is my XPS has flash memory. RW performs much better on a flash drive. RW Project: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition homebrew world Other Tools: CampaignCartographer, Cityographer, Dungeonographer, Evernote
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