Just took the plunge and upgraded (great job cesman on the build cesman) from A30.2 to D1. Has anyone else noticed a speed decrease in the GUI? After the upgrade, I seem to wait 2-3 seconds after selecting a menu item (i.e. select video and hit enter, then wait, then it displays). This is in pretty stark contrast to A30.2 which was nice and snappy.

Anyone else? Perhaps I configured something incorrectly.

Athlon 1900+ on nforce2 board w/ 512 meg RAM using onboard GF video.
Running the nvidia 9631 driver.

Thanks for any suggestions, all.

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

Try turning off the new graphics gizmos (OpenGL?) in the setup. That was a change in Myth 0.20, and maybe it's causing your slowdown.

The only option I see for opengl is under setup>appearance>paint engine (either Gt or OpenGL) and mine is set to Qt. Is this what you're talking about?

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

That's probably it. I'm back on 0.19 for now, until the new KM is ready, so I can't check. Try switching, and you should notice a visible "fade transition" in the menus. If it does, then that's what I was thinking about, and you may already have it turned off anyway...

R5D1 doesn't come with 0.20

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No, but there are a set of debs from Cecil which let update R5D1 to 0.20 along with directions and even scripts for building it yourself. The version in the DEBs was a little out of date with the latest 0.20-fixes last time I checked, and still showed the AMD64 performance issues that Human and others were working on. I suspect that this is what thornsoft is talking about.

Yes, sorry. I DID have things confused. I was thinking about R5D1+0.20. Regular R5D1, which I AM running now, doesn't have the OpenGL stuff. Sorry 'bout that.

@tjc: I used cesman's instructions in this thread to upgrade from the standard R5D1 to 0.20. Is my performance issue related to that in your opinion? I dunno how easy it would be to roll back to the standard R5D1.

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Since you upgraded to 0.20, odds are it isn't going to be easy to downgrade to 0.19 since the db was upgraded. You could try an auto-upgrade if you have done much... I've personally never seen a performance decrease in released version. I am seeing improved performance in the E series.

I ended-up going back to R5D1 (with my older backup files before I upgraded to 0.20) and everything is fine now. As well, the speed of the GUI is nice and responsive -- no lag like when I ran the 0.20 version.

I don't know what to say beyond what I wrote already about it (lag was present with either Qt or opengl as the painter).

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Are you running on an AMD64? Human was tracking down some issues with that but they weren't _that_ extreme and mainly showed up in HDTV playback.

Not a 64bit chip, tjc. It's an athlon xp 1900+/nforce2 based setup. Something was wrong with that build on my hardware; the out-of-the-box R5D1 runs just as fast as my older build w/ R5A30.2 on the same hardware.

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