Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone else has been noticing that 8.3 has caused significant load issues even in the Designer.
Comparing to other projects I've built in Perspective, I don't remember designing mimics taking this long. The other pages I've done have had pipes and mostly the same embedded views on them to make up valves, pumps, etc., but on 8.3 it's so hard to make anything (or line anything up) due to the significant lag.
Creating pipes is a nightmare because it now takes a solid 3 seconds for my pipes to start moving when I drag to make new paths. Moving objects also visually lags around the page. When I try to highlight anything I miss half the stuff because the selected area is 100px off from where I started, haha.
In my Designer I've assigned 4GB of memory but it hang around close to 1GB. I'm starting to go through and change my views to blocking to see if this helps. The only reason I haven't gone back to 8.1 (I think that was the one I used) is the object drawing and I hear that some new changes to the historian's load times.
I'm just worried that when it comes to installing on site it'll be very slow. Did anyone have any tips, or is anyone facing similar issues?
Thanks
I haven't noticed any of these lagging issues myself. When you're creating pipes, do you have a separate coord container to hold your pipes, or are you trying to add pipes into the same coord container as all your other embedded views/components? If you're doing the latter then this is most likely the reason, since there will be snap points created for every single component, and if you have a lot of these on the screen, these are all added into the DOM on the page which slows things down.
I do have a lot of them in the same view so that explains the pipes. On my next page ill try and put these into coordinate containers or ill see if I can move them to their own container. Thank you.
I assume this also effects all the embed view's, trying to move anything would cause them to hit all the anchors.
The only other issues that i cant explain is the lag it takes to shift objects upwards via the arrows keys as well as trying to drag and select anything. I'm also concerned by the load times of the pages but this could just be issues relating to my Dev PC.
So i got one of my more congested pages, moved the pipes to their own coordinate container and filmed the following. The pipes are snapping to other pipes
what are the specs of the PC running your gateway and the designer?
I am running it in a VM and have assigned it 8 GB of ram and 8 Processor cores
Are you running the Designer (allocated 4GB) within the same VM? Assuming Windows VM too
yes altho i tried dropping it to 2 GB as i was never reaching the upper limit
What if you try running the Designer outside of the VM?
I have a co-worker who is running into the same issues and they are running it on their base machine. 32 GB of ram, 22 processor cores and having the same issues.
In the next day or so i will be transferring it to a more powerful computer so i will see how it goes but i just don't believe i have run into this kind of lag before.