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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: HiFiTubes on August 29, 2014, 05:26:44 am

Title: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: HiFiTubes on August 29, 2014, 05:26:44 am
I'm wondering if any other users have noticed the same issue. If I leave EQs on in Display Bar, they too, are choppy.

Scrolling becomes unstable and "sticky" until a restart and I usually browse Tiles.

I have 16GB of RAM and 4core i7 with good cache, and a decent video card.

=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 3.675 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 2.453 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 1.188 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 0.773 seconds
Score: 2349

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 0.153 seconds
    Flood filling... 0.473 seconds
    Direct copying... 0.397 seconds
    Small renders... 1.311 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 1.042 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 0.671 seconds
Score: 5436

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 0.210 seconds
    Populate database... 1.131 seconds
    Save database... 0.201 seconds
    Reload database... 0.054 seconds
    Search database... 1.019 seconds
    Sort database... 1.188 seconds
    Group database... 0.701 seconds
Score: 4773

JRMark (version 19.0.163): 4186
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: JimH on August 29, 2014, 05:59:13 am
What version are you using?
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: HiFiTubes on August 29, 2014, 06:10:42 am
19.0.163

Just came back into room after restart. Nothing playing. Thumbs all built. Scrolling stuck again.

I have just disabled Smooth Scrolling in Logitech Setpoint. Maybe I should uninstall Setpoint? I don't see this issue in other apps though.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: glynor on August 29, 2014, 09:58:36 am
Logitech's Smooth Scrolling has caused weirdness for me in a number of applications, though I don't remember it impacting MC specifically (might have though, but I know it borked other things all up).  I have it installed on my HTPC, but that feature turned off.  Might be worth uninstalling completely just to rule it in/out.

Also might want to update video card drivers.  I've seen weirdness with scrolling performance in Firefox with GPU drivers before.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: glynor on August 29, 2014, 09:59:05 am
Also, restart MC or restart computer?
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: HiFiTubes on August 29, 2014, 10:09:03 am
Thanks, I try somethings.

Restarting MC solves the issue, but it soon returns.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: HiFiTubes on August 31, 2014, 10:00:19 am
Switching between album Tiles getting slow too. Something else is up.

Log file too big to be opened by Wordpad or even Notepad++
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: JimH on August 31, 2014, 10:10:13 am
Disk space?

Antivirus?

Unplug any USB devices or unused drives.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: Arindelle on August 31, 2014, 11:50:39 am
For what it is worth, I had setpoint installed and I had the same problem. I removed it completely, and I have had no problem with the mouse or with its remote and the scrolling is fast. I think it is just bloatware, but that's just my opinion of course.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: 6233638 on August 31, 2014, 03:19:38 pm
Logitech's Smooth Scrolling has caused weirdness for me in a number of applications, though I don't remember it impacting MC specifically
Doesn't that option just enable fractional scrolling instead of using line-based scrolling? It's essential if you have one of their mice with a free-scrolling wheel.
If that's causing problems in Media Center, then it's not Logitech's software at fault.
 
Media Center already behaves strangely and ignores the OS setting for the mouse wheel even when using line-based scrolling, without any drivers installed.
Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: HiFiTubes on September 01, 2014, 03:17:06 am
MC19 kind of bogs down swicthing Tiles, the refresh to change File List starts dragging.

I installed MC20 and saw the same issue, but so far only with scrolling. It seems much fast loading view schemes to me.

uninstalled Setpoint and I think it is safe to say no more dragging scroll of death.

However, there is a section in my Tile View that does bog down MC. As soon as I hit it, scrolling hangs. Please see below. It is the empty Cover Art image (the musical note).


Title: Re: Scrolling choppy until restart (last 3 months)
Post by: Arindelle on September 01, 2014, 08:01:27 am
MC19 kind of bogs down swicthing Tiles, the refresh to change File List starts dragging.

rebuild thumbnails?