Defold editor running sluggish [solved]

Questions
1

Just checking if anyone has the same issue or maybe know what is wrong.
Adding objects, components etc (even in a tiny project) takes a long time, like 4 - 8 seconds.

My system info:
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K

MOBO: Gigabyte Z790 GAMING X AX

Chassi: Corsair 5000D Airflow Black

RAM: 2 x Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 5200MHz 2x16GB (KF552C40BBK2-32)

CPU Cooling: Arctic Liquid Freezer II - 360

HD: Kingston KC3000 M.2 NVMe SSD Gen4 1024GB

PSU: Corsair RM850x V3 850W

GPU: KFA2 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (1-Click OC) 8GB LHR

Windows 11 and latest gpu driver

Thanks!

2

What version of Defold? There are some hashes in the About page that would be helpful.

Where did you install from? Directly from Defold.com, via Steam, or another way?

3

I downloaded it today from defold.com
Version: 1.4.2
Channel: editor-alpha
Build time: 2023-02-03T16:23:04.768495
Editor SHA1: 6616cfba6688a865af2af6c641ad1235d13c6ff7
Engine SHA1: 8cd3a634b13f4db51a37607bf32bf3a3b362c8e6

4

Defold should not be slow on a system as powerful as yours. Perhaps antivirus software? What does the windows task manager show? What kind of Cpu usage are you seeing?

5

With only chrome running with one tab open cpu is 1% - 3%.
Starting up Defold takes 16+ seconds and cpu spikes at around 27% then back to idling around 2%
Adding objects, components etc takes 4-8 seconds and cpu jumps to around 9%

6

Strange. @vlaaad and @mats.gisselson any ideas?

7

Do you have antivirus?

There should be no reason for it to run that slow on your machine.
My guess you have some other tool installed that interferes somehow.

Startup does also access internet a bit to get updated examples but that shouldn’t be a large amount of data. Still, if the internet access is slow, it might slow it down.

8

I have a version of F-Secure branded by Telia (my isp here in sweden) and when I disable it Defold get blazingly fast! I have to try and figure out how to exclude Defold in f-secure settings. Huge thanks for the help :smiley:

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