Thankyou!!!! This was causing me much frustration as a first time user of Kicad on a test project over the last few days, while I can put up with a few of kicads lacking features this was going to be a killer for me (I must admit I love Kicad, coming from eagle). It's now acceptable using this as a work around. Has it been logged as a bug?
Regards, Stephen.. From: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kicad-us...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ben_noz91 Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2010 2:53 PM To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kicad-users] Re: pcbnew is amazing slow under windows 7 - workaround I had the same issue on my brand new laptop on Windows 7 64 bits. The "interf_u.brd" took many seconds to display or refresh. We can see the lines draw one by one. I tried different binary versions, with the same problem (KiCad-2010-03-14-SVN2456, KiCad-2009-02-16-final, kicad-20080825). Like you I tried on virtual machines: XP and Linux 64. And here, despite of virtualization overhead, the same test is responding instantly (so for me this is at least 50 times faster!)! After this I found a very simple "turnaround" solution: go with explorer to pcbnew.exe, click "properties", and check "unactivate desktop composition" under the compatibility tab. With this the speed becomes from unusable to acceptable, but not as smart as under the linux or XP VM. So this acts as a conflict with the new display system of vista/win7. Hoping this little information might help you and other people that will face this problem. Greetings Ben. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com <mailto:kicad-users%40yahoogroups.com> , "o00batman00o" <anthony.siegr...@...> wrote: > > Hello > > Since I upgraded to windows 7, I can't use pcbnew beacause the screen refresh is amazing slow. I can see dot grid showing up from left to right. I notice the same behavior on all PC running Windows Vista or 7. > > My temporary solution is to run Kicad under Ubuntu via VirtualBox. By this way refreshing rate is in my opinion 10 times faster. > > Does someone noticed the same issue? Is there a solution ? > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4990 (20100401) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4990 (20100401) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
