Defold editor slow

Questions
#1

I am new here. I like defold. I do not want to give up on it. But when reviewing very slow and sometimes very small projects (defold
application is not responding). Same problem no on godot engine.

#2

What are the specs of your computer? CPU and GPU.

#3

Please share a demo project so I can test it.

#4

I don’t really understand about these things but I guess you want them.
cpu gpu

#5

Can you give an example of a project that is slow? And is everything slow or only certain operations?

#6

it happens in all projects. There is a 1.5-2 second delay. It happens with everything in general. While writing scripts, creating collections, etc.

#7

What platform are you using?

#8

Windows 8

#9

Perhaps AntiVirus software or something scanning and blocking the editor?

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#10

I use 360 ​​total security. Is it have any impact?

#11

I don’t know. Try disabling it and see if it makes any difference? Or exclude/whitelist Defold?

#12

It happens on my computer too. I open a new project and after 10-15 seconds it opens. While working inside Defold it becomes unusable with random freezes. My PC is a Lenovo Ideapad 100 whith fairly low-end specs (dual core CPU and 4Gb of RAM).
I think this happens due to the editor being based on JVM, which is known for using lot of resources (both CPU and RAM). I whish there was an editor written native technologies like C or C++, it should be much faster than the actual.

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#13

there seems to be no solution. I will continue to use defold.
I hope a solution is found

#14

Does it happen to be slow also if the visible window is the code editor?
Those GPUs suffer a lot with antialiasing on lines that you would see with an atlas or a collection (the grid background basically). Try also and check if your graphic driver has control over AA and turn it off.

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#15

It happens everywhere, editing code, Editing an Atlas, etc.

Unfortunately my Intel graphics driver doesn’t support custom AA settings. Thanks Anyway.

#16

I’m also having this issue. Particularly editing a tilesource - lagging 1-2 seconds when making any changes.

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#17

Thanks. Me and @mats.gisselson will take a look at this next week. We have this issue and slow atlas editing to look into.

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#18

This has been resolved by @mats.gisselson today!

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#19

I’m having this issue too on my Intel core i5 3220M , 16GB of RAM, Intel HD 4000, Windows 10.
It’s very slow on almost every operation that involves graphics, like selecting sprite, moving sprite, minimize window, etc.

#20

I’m using Defold on same machine with Manjaro 20.2.1. And it’s very smooth, no lagging like on Windows 10