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Old 10-26-2007, 04:43 AM   #1
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Default Linux: Performance issues when redrawing waveforms

Hi there,

I'm running the latest Reaper via WineAsio under Ubuntu. When I had Feisty installed, everything worked perfectly, but with the Gutsy update I got serious performance issues: Reaper takes very long to redraw the waveforms of media items (it's getting slower the more items are visible), the program even freezes while redrawing. Here's a screen capture, first with waveforms turned off and then with only one track showing waveforms:

http://www.coshima.net/data/reaper.ogg

Am I the only one with this problem? Can anyone suggest some settings to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
404.

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Old 10-26-2007, 05:11 AM   #2
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nope you're not the only one.

me too

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Old 10-26-2007, 09:24 AM   #3
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I'm seeing this too.

Changing the Appearance preferences to
UI updates: Lazy always Unbuffered
fixed it.

Also, running Reaper in a Wine desktop window, seems to improve performance as well.
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Old 10-27-2007, 05:37 AM   #4
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Am I the only one with this problem? Can anyone suggest some settings to fix this?
I checked out various files last night, to see if I was having the problem you described. Sorry, no such problem here, but I don't have any files with a great multitude of waveforms. I'm running 2.007 on an AMD64 3200+, with an nVidia 7300GS video card (512 MB VRAM), maybe that helps ?

Is the problem persistent, i.e., does it occur regardless of the number of files displayed ?

System here is JAD 1.0, Open SUSE 10.2.
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I checked out various files last night, to see if I was having the problem you described. Sorry, no such problem here, but I don't have any files with a great multitude of waveforms. I'm running 2.007 on an AMD64 3200+, with an nVidia 7300GS video card (512 MB VRAM), maybe that helps ?

Is the problem persistent, i.e., does it occur regardless of the number of files displayed ?

System here is JAD 1.0, Open SUSE 10.2.
Just out of interest,- have you upgraded to the latest wine?

I'm wondering if the recent gutsy upgrade has caused a problem somewhere along the line.

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Old 10-27-2007, 06:52 AM   #6
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ok.

Telling Reaper to not stop the audio engine on Stop has cured my glitches.

Also,- try lowering the latency in Jack. Mine wont even work at over 512samples.

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Old 10-27-2007, 06:53 AM   #7
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oh.

And DISABLE VISUAL EFFECTS in gutsy. Use metacity instead.

You can of course install the old compiz control panel thingy and tweak it better.


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have you upgraded to the latest wine?
Yes. Current version here is 0.9.47, my build.
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I'm seeing this too.

Changing the Appearance preferences to
UI updates: Lazy always Unbuffered
fixed it.

Also, running Reaper in a Wine desktop window, seems to improve performance as well.
Running it in a desktop window harms performance here.

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Old 10-28-2007, 04:13 AM   #10
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Running it in a desktop window harms performance here.
I haven't determined whether it helps or harms here. With it, I don't have problems with hidden panels. Otherwise I'm not sure I see/hear any especial improvement. Perhaps it's one of those things that will help some systems and do little or nothing on others.

How does it harm performance on your machine ?
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I haven't determined whether it helps or harms here. With it, I don't have problems with hidden panels. Otherwise I'm not sure I see/hear any especial improvement. Perhaps it's one of those things that will help some systems and do little or nothing on others.

How does it harm performance on your machine ?

very slow redraws on zooming in/out on the track pane.

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Old 10-29-2007, 02:05 PM   #12
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Havent't tested it intensively yet, but it seems like 2.009 resolved the performance issues

@daverich: Install v2.009, then choose options > peaks > rebuild all peaks.

GREAT WORK, JUSTIN!
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