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Image Loading is Unacceptably Slow #342

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
First of all, if you have any Haxies, InputManagers, SIMBL plugins or
similar operating system hacks installed, please remove them first, restart
the program, and make sure the bug is reproducible without them.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attempt to open .jpg file
2. Xee displays a screen filled with rolling static and eventually the image 
will appear. 
3. It can take over 40 seconds for the image to appear and while the program is 
working on the image it will report at times that it is unresponsive in 
Activity Monitor
4. There does not appear to be any correlation between the size of the image 
and the load time. 9 MB images loaded faster than 200 KB images.

This version of Xee is dramatically less responsive than the previous version.

Running Xee 3.0.1 on OS 10.8.3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adk46can...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 1:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is not something I can reproduce, obviously. First, check if you have any 
programs installed that change the behavior of other apps, and disable them and 
see if the problem persists.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 10:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Same here.. MBP 15" 2.66 GHz Core i7, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.8.4.

Opening a 280kb JPEG image takes around 6 seconds. Subsequent images are loaded 
almost instantaneously.

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I also have same problem. When trying to open .jpg file it takes very long time 
with Xee 3.0.1. But with Xee 3.0 everything is Ok. So, went back to 3.0.
Macbook Pro 3.1   OS 10.8.4

Original comment by buro6...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Is this on a machine with GeForce graphics?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I'm also running v3.0.1, using NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This may be caused by a workaround for another bug on GeForce GPUs, which may 
actually be in the GeForce driver itself. I do not currently have the hardware 
to test and debug it properly, unfortunately, so I can do little to fix it 
properly at this point.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hmmm, that's too bad.. Could you provide a download link to v3.0, so I can try 
to see if the workaround is the cause of the problem?

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/old/Xee3.0.zip

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 МБ

Original comment by buro6...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 12:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
v3.0 works as expected

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 3:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Could somebody test and see if http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/Xee3.0.2.zip 
solves the problem?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 6:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It's still quite a bit slower than v3.0 (4 seconds vs. 1)

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 7:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok, let's try one more thing. Thing is, this slowness is probably caused by a 
workaround for a crash that seems to happen only on GeForce. I removed the 
workaround and made a guess at what might fix the crash itself:

http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/Xee3.0.3.zip

The problem is, I can't test it since I don't have a GeForce. Also, the crash 
is sort of rare. If somebody could give this some really heavy testing, that 
would be useful. I think it might trigger when opening an image, but I am not 
sure.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 7:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Success! This one seems to work fine with the couple of images I've thrown at 
it.

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 10:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It still needs to be tested to make sure it doesn't randomly crash, though.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 10:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Is the crash reproducible with a specific image or filetype? If you could 
provide me with some test images, I'd be happy to test them for you..

Original comment by lorenzo.fanchi@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 10:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
No, it is completely random as far as I know. The only thing to do is to keep 
opening things.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 10:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I've tested it with many different kind of images and it never crashes. 
Probably it depends of certain model of graphic or system.
But overall feeling is not so good from this version. As others mentioned 
before, it much less responsive, many images loading with delay.  And that 
annoying effect while image is loading!!! I work a lot of time with images and 
very quickly eyes become tired because of this effect. I bought  Xee 3 but now 
I realized I can't use it :-(
I remember many years ago I was using ACDSee 2.43 on PC. It was such a nice 
viewer! It was fast, lightweight and without any annoying effects.

Macbook 3.1  OS 10.8.4  NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB    Xee 3.0.4

Original comment by buro6...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 12:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I might add other options for loading effects later, but now I just need to get 
things working right.

Generally, you should not see the loading effect much, as images will be 
pre-loaded while browsing, unless you skip around very fast.

(Also, try changing window style, as that changes the brightness also.)

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 12:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok, thank you. I'll wait.
I tried with dark style and it looks better, effect is not so annoying.
But don't you think that this effect itself make loading picture more slow?

Yes, sometime I have to search through many pictures fast and than that effect 
appear very often.

In the future it would be nice to have possibility in full screen mode to 
change background color independently from the window style. For example I 
prefer regular style but for the full screen I want dark background.

Original comment by buro6...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 2:13