Lectora 11.2a slow image re-draw times under Windows 8.
October 28, 2013 12:00 AM
Dear all,
We have recently moved from Lectora v9.3 to 11.2a but our new courses are displaying an unnacceptably slow image (re-)draw behaviour. This applies to both Preview and Edit mode in Lectora, as well as published executables. However, the same executables run smoothly and fast under older Windows versions.
We have already contacted Customer Support but the response received was far from positive: "...this is due to the new image technology tool that Microsoft requires we use. We will look future into the issue, but there are currently no workarounds to get this tool to display them at a faster rate."
I assumed this would be a hot topic in the Forum but I could find nothing even related to this. Is anyone else seeing something similar?
Thanks in advance,
Robert van Dongen
Discussion (5)
Apparently, not many people use Lectora in W8. You can try running Lectora on W7 in a virtual machine.
Frankly speaking, I have yet to see anyone using W8... I myself downgraded to W7 immediately after buying my latest laptop. I think that it is not common at all in corporate environments despite whatever MS marketing people say.
Regarding the virtual machines, both Parallels on Mac and VMWare on Windows have this amazing feature when the virtual ized box is seamlessly integrated with the host operating system. Copy-pasting, file dragging and even alt-tabbing works just as if the guest applications were running locally. Our QA deparment uses 6 virtual machines to test courses in various environments (IE6,7,8,9,10 and MacOS).
So if you're authoring on W8, you have options. However, if your users run EXE courses on W8, you couldn't force all of them to run virtual machines. You could try publishing courses as HTML and converting them to EXE (not a popular process but there are a few solutions), or be forced to switch to online delivery.
Thanks for the suggestion. Using a virtual machine has performance and editor integration implications that will probably spoil the fun. I find really surprising that, if this is indeed a global issue with Lectora 11 running under Windows 8, this has not been talked about more often. This OS version is more than one year old... If I am the first one seeing this, others will join me soon.
Back to the issue: running Lectora 11 in XP SP3 or Windows 7 compatibility modes under WIndows 8 does not help...
We have no issues with Lectora 11 and Windows 7 whatsoever. I am also quite sure that if people had issues with Lectora 11 and Windows 7, these forums would be full of complaints. This should be something specific to your systems. Are they virtualized (e.g. Citrix)? Is there any corporate bloatware that slows the system down? Do the machines meet the mininum system requirements?
We have tried installing Lectora 11 on a Windows 7 machine in an attempt to improve re-drawing speeds. It turns out that the same behaviour we thought was only present under Windows 8 is also seen under Windows 7. The very same .awt files generate executables that behave very differently, depending on what version of Lectora (fast re-draw from 9.3 vs. slow re-draw from 11.2) used. This is looking more and more like a Lectora 11 issue.
Reverting to Windows 7 is not an option anymore...
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