Slow startup time on my Vista laptop

General Discussion
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I’m wondering if someone here has encountered a really long startup time (like 15-20 secs) when starting Panda?
When I start any of the samples my mouse freezes + the clock on the desktop freezes for about 15-20 secs, then the panda window appears.
When it’s running all is well, no performance problems there.
I’m running with Panda 1.7 on Vista on a HP laptop.

I had some similar issues a couple of years back when running Ogre with OIS, it took quite some time to start up.
But when testing Horde3D last year it started really quick (in a couple of seconds).

So any tips on what might going on on my system would be highly appreciated… it’s a pain when I’m testing out Panda…
(I’m wondering if it’s something with the input system on my PC…)

Btw, when testing the same thing at work on a desktop comp running Win 7 it starts really fast.

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Gogg recently put in some changes to improve startup time, but what you’re describing sounds more chronic.

A curiosity: you don’t, by chance, have “want-pstats 1” in your Config.prc file, do you? If you do, it will attempt to contact whatever host you set in “pstats-host” at startup time, and that network communication attempt can sometimes lock up the process until it times out.

David

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No, I have that setting disabled.
I’m running with the 1.7 exe-version gotten from the download page.

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does the pc in your office has the same hardware specs as your pc at home? well, except the Win7 and vista mentioned earlier.

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Have you tried pview.exe to see if you get the same delay? Because maybe the problem is Python related.

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@simonmorrison23: No, the hardware at home is different from that on the work… were you thinking of some special hardware component?

@Gogg: Yes, I get the same delay with pview.exe. Also when testing from C++ the same delay is there.

When starting up and running with notify-level “warning” it freezes after these lines are printed out to the console:
Known pipe types:
wglGraphicsPipe
(all display modules loaded.)

And when running with notify-level “debug” it freezes after these lines are printed out:
:display:windisplay(debug): WM_SIZE: 000605E6, 0
:display:windisplay(debug): WM_ACTIVATE: 000605E6, 1, 0
:display(debug): system_changed_properties(foreground !minimized )
:event(debug): Throwing event window-event(wglGraphicsWindow)
:display:windisplay(debug): setfocus
:display(debug): system_changed_properties(foreground )
:task(debug): AsyncTaskManager TaskManager task chain loader; 0 tasks: set_num_threads(1)

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I tested on another similar laptop at home, and on it the startup time was only a few seconds.
So it seems to be something wrong with the setup on my system (either hwardware or software).

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I can’t figure out Windows… :open_mouth:
In my device manager I had a HP remote control and a USB remote control, I uninstalled these and upon reboot the devices had reinstalled themself!
And the result of this: Panda3D starts really fast on my laptop now! :smiley: