Version 5.1 running incredibly slow with semi-large score

Dorico
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Hi all,

I scoured the forums looking for something that would help me, but to no avail.

I’m working on a pretty large chamber orchestra score right now, and most of the functions are running incredible slow. It takes several seconds after inputting a note/pasting a section for the music to actually show up, and it takes a good 15 seconds to go from galley view to page view. Saving also takes a while.

Some things I’ve tried, with no effect:

  1. I turned the playback engine to silence (I use NotePerformer 4), and also completely deactivated playback, no change.
  2. I turned off condensing, no change.
  3. I restarted my system and reopened Dorico, it’s just as slow as when the score is open for hours.
  4. Tried the same file on my other, more powerful computer with the exact same lagginess.

I’m running Pro v. 5.1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X12 on Windows 11 ( i7-1180G7 2.20 GHz, 16GB RAM), but my more powerful machine has the same issues.

I’ve attached the diagnostics report here, but the project itself is over 4MB, so I’d be happy to share it via email.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.2 MB)

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Could you give us an idea of the size of the project – in Project Statistics, in terms of staves, bars, “non-empty” frames, etc?

3

Sure thing.

Staves: 17
Systems: 113
Bars: 509
Frames: 7597
Non-empty frames: 3817
Empty frames: 3780

4

Hi there, just checking in to see if anyone has any new advice on this issue. The program has become unusably slow for me at this point.

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Have you checked your system’s memory use ?
When it happens to me usually quitting and restarting Dorico or restarting the computer does the job.

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Dorico is taking up about 2GB of RAM at the most (usually when switching between Galley/Page views or during playback) and generally about 10% of my CPU, though that shoots up to 30+% while switching between Galley/Page views.

I haven’t noticed any difference while quitting/restarting either Dorico or the entire system. The speed issues remain the same. I’m considering doing a complete reinstall of Dorico…

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There’s probably very little point in doing that.

Your score doesn’t seem that big. If you create a new document with the same instruments, and paste the data over – or export XML and import it again – does that document show similar slowness?

The best thing you can do is send the score to d dot spreadbury at steinberg dot de, with a link to this thread.

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Thank you for your suggestions, I’ll give them a try!