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[vadbag]

Hello!

I experience some problems with WME. Suddenly it started to work wery slow. It takes ages to open a project or a scene or a sprite, but two days ago everything was OK. There are no any errors in the log, but something is wrong. I tried to reinstall the program, but it didn't change anything. I thought, that the problem might be with my project only, but when I tried to open the demo project it was again taking about 20-30 seconds to open it. 

It would be great if Mnemonic could help me.
Thanx!

EDITED: Just one more thing. When I try to run the game in project manager it also takes a lot of time to open the initial settings window. When I compiled the game (which was very quick  ) and tried to run it the same thing - the settings wndow takes very long to appear. I have a previously compiled version of the game, and it starts without any slowness...  Something changed in the WME today, but I don't know what it was. 

[Mnemonic]

-did you make any configuration changes (new drivers, DirectX, Windows Update)?
-do you have any anti-virus/anti-spyware software running in the background?
-if you compile the game and run it directly from Windows (NOT from ProjectMan), is it slow too?
-does it make a difference if you enable/disable the "Require 3D acceleration" property in ProjectMan?
-did you try running the project on another computer?
-what WME version, Windows version, video card are you using?
-do other games run ok? did you try running dxdiag to check for any driver/DirectX related problems?

[odnorf]

Do you have any other 3d app running in the background? Like a MacOS-like dock panel? From my experience this is causing serious slowness problems to wme.

[vadbag]

I'll answer in order you asked:

-yes I had a Windows Update, but I think the problem started before that. 
-I have an anti-virus running, but it was always there with no problems before.
-Yes, the compiled game is slow too. It's not the game itself, but the settings window. Once it appears, everything else is OK.
-there's no difference if I enable/disable 3D acceleration.
-No I didn't, I might try.
-WME version - 1.52, Windows version - XP Home edition SP2, video card - ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE
-other games run ok. I'll have a look at dxdiag as well.

To odnorf: No other 3d application running.

My point is, that it worked perfectly, on the same configuration, but the day before yesterday Istarted to have this problem, although I don't remember changing anything in OS nor system.

Thank you, for your reply. 

[Mnemonic]

The only thing WME is doing prior to displaying the settings window is querying available hardware, so it appears to be driver/DirectX issue.
The same goes for the tools when opening a new file.

[vadbag]

You are right! Just found this line in logs:

"Fatal: error querying available hardware. Exiting."

What is your suggestion on overcoming this problem?

Thanx!

[Mnemonic]

Actually this message is displayed if you cancel the settings window, so don't panic.

12:27: Device selection cancelled by user
12:27: Fatal: error querying available hardware. Exiting.

Anyway, I recommend checking dxdiag, and then reinstalling DirectX and/or video card drivers.

[vadbag]

Thank you! I'll try that! 

[vadbag]

Yet, it's very strange, because the game that I compiled one week ago still starts quickly. I updated DirectX, but it didn't make any difference. I think that WME queryes for some hardware which it didn't ask before...  The Project Joe demo also works well. Thus, my system seems to be all right. But the problem still exists. 

Help! 

[Mnemonic]

It's doesn't make much sense. It would be nice if you could confirm the issue can be replicated on another computer and create some minimalistic example I could test myself.

[vadbag]

Do you mean, an example of the problematic one? Do you need it compiled?

[vadbag]

And there is a slight problem  The game is in Russian. Is it OK?

[Mnemonic]

No, it's not a problem, I just need to test if I'm able to replicate the issue. And, yes, please send the example compiled, including the exe.

[Mnemonic]

Well it works ok on my computer..

[odnorf]

Mnemonic have already asked before but... do you remember if you have updated any drivers, especially graphics card and/or soundcard? And do you have a software firewall?

I'm asking because I had a similar problem in the past. A newer set of drivers for my graphics card wanted to contact the windows site to check if they were certified and because they were blocked by my firewall, wme had to wait for the connection to time out and thus it was starting very very slow. I hope it makes sense.