External Moderators tmoulder Posted July 15, 2011 External Moderators Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hi guys, Trying to set up a 1210 screen on my Acer netbook. Now, my trusty little Acer is not a bad computer - I'm running an Intel Atom N270 CPU at 1.6 Ghz, with 1.48 Gb ram. It's got Windows XP SP3, all the latest updates, and I keep my hard drive and registry scrubbed regularly with CCleaner. Nonetheless, Visilogic is running sloooooooow. I've noticed in the past it was a bit laggy (took a second or two for pop-ups to open and so on) when trying to program a 570, but the delay was tolerable, if not ideal. But the 1210 is, in fact, intolerable. The delay drags on for 5-10 seconds simply trying to select an object on the HMI screen. Perhaps I'm missing something. I tend to doubt that it's the hardware specs, given I can run Autocad on it without issues, and that's the most resource-devouring software I can think of. I tried disabling my anti-virus, but it made no difference. Thanks, TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hi guys, Trying to set up a 1210 screen on my Acer netbook. Now, my trusty little Acer is not a bad computer - I'm running an Intel Atom N270 CPU at 1.6 Ghz, with 1.48 Gb ram. It's got Windows XP SP3, all the latest updates, and I keep my hard drive and registry scrubbed regularly with CCleaner. Nonetheless, Visilogic is running sloooooooow. I've noticed in the past it was a bit laggy (took a second or two for pop-ups to open and so on) when trying to program a 570, but the delay was tolerable, if not ideal. But the 1210 is, in fact, intolerable. The delay drags on for 5-10 seconds simply trying to select an object on the HMI screen. Perhaps I'm missing something. I tend to doubt that it's the hardware specs, given I can run Autocad on it without issues, and that's the most resource-devouring software I can think of. I tried disabling my anti-virus, but it made no difference. Thanks, TM This sounds eerily similar to the effects I was experiencing (post "Visi 9.3 Slow"), only for me it was acting this way no matter what unit I selected. It did eventually start to act better, oddly enough without any intervention from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
External Moderators tmoulder Posted July 15, 2011 Author External Moderators Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hi Damian, Yeh, I've tried every trick in my arsenal. Even changing priority to "high" did nothing to help. TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
External Moderators tmoulder Posted July 20, 2011 Author External Moderators Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 So with my netbook reacting so slowly, I conscripted my wife's new laptop and started about setting up shop with it. It's a compaq presario CQ56 with a 2.6 Ghz processor. I cranked the ram up to 5 gig and installed linux mint 11, then added VMware Player and created a Windows XP virtual machine with 2.5 gig of memory assigned. After installing my various software, I fired up Visilogic 930 and it runs perfectly. This is particularly interesting, since a VM is traditionally poorer performance than a native install, but regardless, it does look like the problem lay in my computer, not the software. Thanks! TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Posted November 4, 2011 Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 Visilogic under windows 7 has now slowed to such an immense crawl that it is uterly unusable. I can click on "save" and literally wait over two minutes before the window will pop up to ask me for a file name. I can click on "download" and it will literally be 5+ minutes before it actually starts downloading. Uninstalling and Installing 9.3.1 had no effect, or it may actually be worse. I can't be the only one experiencing this can I? The PC I am using is a beast, so there is not reason for ill performance. There is some kind of conflict going on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 Another matter of interest. Running Visilogic in an XP virtual machine on the same computer and it performs normally. It is faster in the virtual machine than the machine itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2023 Joe Tauser Posted November 6, 2011 MVP 2023 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 You guys have really got my thinking about this virtual machine stuff- I've been using XP only for so long that I haven't had to try it yet. I did enjoy reading Tim's blog on Linux Mint. I'm going to try setting up a Win98SE virtual machine so I can dig out my old copy of "Redneck Rampage" and play it on the Mancave computer. Joe T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Alright, now i am experiencing all the same issues with the U90 software as well. They must both be using some driver/library/function that is conflicting with something else on Win7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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