Slow loading photos in all uses and resolutions

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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. Loading any photos, takes a few seconds to load between photos
2.My only frustration with this paid update to the app is the amount of load 
time it takes to go through images. 
I really like a lot of features in this software, so really want to be able to 
use it again.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? 3.3 

On what operating system? Mavericks and Mountain Lion. Same issue

Please provide any additional information below.

It is not ususable for showing people photos and takes too much time.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by themulti...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2013 at 8:08

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What hardware?

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2013 at 8:09

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Please bring back progressive decoding. It's annoying to wait a couple of 
seconds for the image to show, but when it's revealed line by line (like in the 
previous Xee) at least you could get the idea which image it is and skip to the 
next one if needed.

Original comment by blo...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 2:25

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Unfortunately, it is not returning. Many other things would have to be 
sacrificed to get it working. It barely worked at all in Xee 2, and was a huge 
effort to keep going, and prevented many other things.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 2:39

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I have just few days ago purchased full version of the Xee3 (had the Xee 
before) and the speed of browsing through a directory is simply awful. I am 
browsing through 10Mpix, 4MB each photos on a MacBook (2008) with 8GB RAM and 
brand new SSD. And it takes about 1-2 seconds to load an image. Even Preview is 
faster than that.

Original comment by matus.ka...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2014 at 8:53

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For hardware that old, you may be better off with Xee 2. Xee 3 does depend on 
having a pretty good GPU.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2014 at 9:06

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I'm on a current year high-end macbook pro, and Xee 3.3 also loads images very 
slowly for me.  Xee2 was very fast for me.

My macbook has a GeForce GT 650M.  I saw other posts saying that in Xee3.0.2, 
there were issues with this GPU.  Perhaps the issues have cropped back in?

I downloaded an old version of Xee3.0 (17), and it loads images very fast.

Anything hints on things i can do to make 3.3 faster?

Thanks!

Original comment by chunkerc...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2014 at 11:58

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Hmm, that's interesting. Should be looked into closer, but unfortunately I 
don't have a machine to do it on...

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2014 at 5:44

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Since I purchased the Xee3.3 on the app store but am no longer using it due to 
the performance issues, could you give me a download link (or activation code) 
for Xee 3.0 instead?

Love the app, but the latest version just isn't useable..

thanks-

Original comment by chunkerc...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2014 at 6:02

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Send a mail and I can get you an activation code.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2014 at 6:35

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Xee3 is very slow on MBP Mid'09 (GF9400/GF9600). Previous free versions was 
significantly faster. I don't understand which features require to sacrifice 
performance so much. What was improved for the price of this performance drop? 
Do we really need such "improvements"?

Original comment by igor.ara...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2014 at 10:58

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> revealed line by line .. you could get the idea which image it is and skip to 
the next one

I agree completely (and is my last holdout for upgrading).  If this is not 
possible, suggestion: an option to grant Xee additional memory usage.  Have it 
look ahead in the image sequence and pre-render upcoming images, as well as 
maintain a few already seen.

Original comment by d...@douglasbeck.com on 5 Jun 2014 at 2:51

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Issue 405 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2014 at 8:56

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I also find it a bit slow to load first time, Preview is much quicker so when 
I'm just trying to check a few images quickly I sometimes end up using Preview 
instead which is a shame. I'm using a top of the scale iMac with 24GB RAM and 
i7 processor and also upgrades the graphics card so don't think hardware is a 
problem.

Original comment by car...@baez.org on 8 Jul 2014 at 11:43

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I have a 2013 15" retina MacBook Pro with a dedicated GPU, and no matter which 
GPU I use (although 3.3 forces dedicated), all images are very slow to load. 
This is one of the best machines Apple makes right now, and Xee 2 is much much 
faster on the same hardware loading images.

I can browse images on a network share, locally, doesn't seem to matter - 
there's a half to two second delay loading the next image, which just feels 
nasty.

I am happy to dump logs, test builds, whatever it takes. I love Xee and all of 
its features, but I'm tearing my hair out.

Original comment by Aktariel on 10 Aug 2014 at 6:27

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I agree completely. I loved Xee2, but it doesn't have retina support, and it 
doesn't automatically rotate images. It's mostly the rotation I'm after, but 
Xee3.3 has slow loading, and an annoying gray screen between each image. I'd 
rather see the previous image for a few seconds while it's loading.

But it really should be much faster. Xee2 was so fast, what happened?

I couldn't find an alternative to quickly view images, and easily move them to 
folders (which is awesome in Xee).

Original comment by nicmarme...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2014 at 5:32

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There are two fast image viewers: LilyView and ArcSoft Photo+
Xee developer don't hear users of his app.

Original comment by igor.ara...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2014 at 8:39

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I hear quite well, thank you very much. it's just that loading is not actually 
slow on most machines, and I can not easily reproduce the problems where it is 
extremely slow on my available machines, and this whole issue is extremely 
complicated.

I've already spent money on technical support from Apple to work out some of 
these issues, but they were not much help either, this is a very mysterious 
problem. If anyone thinks they have the resources to figure it out, I can 
arrange for them to have a look at the code too.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 19 Aug 2014 at 8:43