Faster windows/GUI

[Landryan]

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]

+1 for this. Switching tabs should be instant!

 

[Acenoid]

+100e27

 

[Greebo]

+1 from me, too.

 

[Bidmaron]

+1 here

 

[Merion]

+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]

try moving rw to a flash drive

 

[Happydevil43]

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]

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]

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).

 

[gloranphile]

Wait, how can you install RW on a flash drive?

 

[Toblakai]

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.

Memory management doesn't get better by changing the application from 32bit to 64bit, it does allow for direct addressing of more memory. In fact most applications will actually use more memory going to 64bit (pointers double in size). Some operations will get faster moving to 64bit, like math ops using 64bit registers instead of 32bit, which RW will have few of. If RW is crashing you are running into a bug,

 

[Cronus]

Yeah, I have what I feel is a pretty quick computer with 16 gigs of RAM. But swapping tabs can take up to 10-20 seconds. Which is insane to me that it would do that.

Some of those tabs have very little data outside of the pre-made data fields. I keep hoping one of these Realm Work updates would speed up the database.

 

[Parody]

Wait, how can you install RW on a flash drive?

They meant having an SSD (so flash storage) as your user profile drive (normally the same as your boot drive) because Realm Works stores your database there. It shouldn't matter that much where you put the application; if you have even a smidgeon of free memory the entire application will be in the disk cache.

 

[gloranphile]

They meant having an SSD (so flash storage) as your user profile drive (normally the same as your boot drive) because Realm Works stores your database there. It shouldn't matter that much where you put the application; if you have even a smidgeon of free memory the entire application will be in the disk cache.

Gotcha. I've got it installed on both my computers, and they both have SSDs. The laptop is notably slower than my desktop though...

 

[Vargr]

+1 for this. Would be a great improvement.

 

[Valyar]

+1 for this - improving the loading time of a tab is a must-have!