Xnview is very slow when display is in portrait orientation

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:13 pm

Hi,

my display has a really nice pivot-feature which allows me to rotate it into portrait orientation. Now if it is rotated that way, I have some trouble with XNview.

When opening the browser, the computer hangs for a few seconds, just long enough to be annoying. this happens between opening the browser window and actually displaying it's contents. It does only happen in portrait mode, if I don't have the display rotated there's no lag at all.

Would be nice if you could have a look at it,

Tobi

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:15 am

Hi again,

sorry I forgot to mention some details of my system's configuration. It's a PC running Windows XP Pro SP 2. XNview is version 1.93.6 the graphics card is an integrated Intel solution called 82852/82855. To rotate the display, I use the graphics driver's own feature.

Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:25 am

You can perhaps try the 1.94.2? Try to remove category.db?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:26 pm

xnview wrote:You can perhaps try the 1.94.2?

No difference at all.

Try to remove category.db?

I did that already, I also removed xnview.db. Neither helped though. Another reason to assume that it's not related to any database issues is that everything works fine when the display is in landscape orientation of when XNview is on the secondary display which can't be rotated.

Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:42 pm

Anonymous wrote: I did that already, I also removed xnview.db. Neither helped though. Another reason to assume that it's not related to any database issues is that everything works fine when the display is in landscape orientation of when XNview is on the secondary display which can't be rotated.

You have only this problem when you are in portrait? Strange...
Do you have problem with other programs?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:51 pm

xnview wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I did that already, I also removed xnview.db. Neither helped though. Another reason to assume that it's not related to any database issues is that everything works fine when the display is in landscape orientation of when XNview is on the secondary display which can't be rotated.
You have only this problem when you are in portrait? Strange...

Yes, only in portrait orientation. I absolutely agree, it's very strange...

Do you have problem with other programs?

None that were obvious to me. In XNview everything works fine, it's just when I open up a browser window that the program slows down.

Thanks,
Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:45 am

Anonymous wrote: None that were obvious to me. In XNview everything works fine, it's just when I open up a browser window that the program slows down.

In view mode you have no problem?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:20 am

xnview wrote:
Anonymous wrote:None that were obvious to me. In XNview everything works fine, it's just when I open up a browser window that the program slows down.
In view mode you have no problem?

Nope, none at all. I just tried it: When in portrait mode, starting XNview takes a lot more time compare to landscape mode. There have no changes been done to the system: I just started XNview, closed it, rotated the display and started the program again.

Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:27 am

Anonymous wrote: Nope, none at all. I just tried it: When in portrait mode, starting XNview takes a lot more time compare to landscape mode. There have no changes been done to the system: I just started XNview, closed it, rotated the display and started the program again.

When you have started it, no more delay after?
If you close browser (not xnview), and restart browser, do you have always the delay?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:10 am

xnview wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope, none at all. I just tried it: When in portrait mode, starting XNview takes a lot more time compare to landscape mode. There have no changes been done to the system: I just started XNview, closed it, rotated the display and started the program again.
When you have started it, no more delay after?

None that I notice. My XNview is configured to open the browser window when I start it.

If you close browser (not xnview), and restart browser, do you have always the delay?

Yes. Whenever I open the browser. Doesn't matter whether that's when the program is running or when I just started it up.

When the browser window pops up, all I see is the white background and the grey border lines. A while after that, the images and the folder tree appear as they should. In the time between seeing the white background and the images CPU load goes up and the computer almost freezes.

Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:23 pm

Anonymous wrote: When the browser window pops up, all I see is the white background and the grey border lines. A while after that, the images and the folder tree appear as they should. In the time between seeing the white background and the images CPU load goes up and the computer almost freezes.

Could you try in option/General/Startup dir : Specified, and clear the folder field

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:57 pm

xnview wrote:Could you try in option/General/Startup dir : Specified, and clear the folder field

Makes no difference at all.

Thanks for the suggestion though,
Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:18 pm

Anonymous wrote:
xnview wrote:Could you try in option/General/Startup dir : Specified, and clear the folder field
Makes no difference at all.

The folder tree is almost empty like that, right?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:56 pm

xnview wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
xnview wrote:Could you try in option/General/Startup dir : Specified, and clear the folder field
Makes no difference at all.
The folder tree is almost empty like that, right?

Right after opening the browser window, during the lag, it's completely empty, just plain white. After that, ready to be used, it just shows the basic struture of my hard drives. 'My computer', below that C:, D:, U:, V:, 'Common documents' and 'Tobi's files' and on the same level as 'My Computer' 'Networksomething' and 'Own files' (The actual names might be a little different, my system is german, but I guess you know what I mean.).

Tobi

Post by **xnview** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:17 pm

Could you send me your email by PM, please