Visio 2013 VERY slow

Anonymous
2012-11-08T17:47:50+00:00

I upgraded to Visio 2013. I am using the standard detailed networking template. After adding a few items, Visio has gotten so slow its almost unusable. WWhen I move icons it takes 3-5 seconds to give me back control. ITS terrible. I have a Thinkpad T510 with a system score of 6.9's across the board and one 4.9, so I highly doubt its that. All other applications scream. I tried disabling hardware accelleration and updating my video driver which did nothing.

Like visio 2013, but sad the performance is so bad...any suggestions?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-03T17:30:25+00:00

    I think I've got it fixed on mine.

    Rather than disable Acceleration, seemed to me that the IGP and Nvidia weren't cooperating with which was going to render Visio.

    I had previously downgraded back to 2010, but got tired of constantly converting when sharing files with coworkers.

    Anyway, this might not apply to everyone, but I saw a few other comments from people who also have Optimus-enabled laptops.

    Basically, I'm forcing Visio to be rendered by my Quadro, instead of allowing it to be rendered by the Intel.

    Go to the Nvidia Control Panel and open check the "Manage 3D Settings"

    Under the "Program Settings" tab

    Add a reference to Visio if needed

    Set to use the discrete graphics

    It's working way better for me now, no more weird lag when moving the main window, and now more lag during pan/zoom.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-05T19:04:56+00:00

    hmmmm.  I don't have that option:

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-30T19:34:52+00:00

    Hi Derek/Adushey,

    I'm running Visio 2013 on my Windows 8 laptop (Thinkpad x220t). As suggested by Adushey, I created a Network diagram with over 20 shapes. Pan and zoom has been pretty snappy.

    If you can share the following info (observed when you find Visio running slow), it should help the team investigate.

    1. Visio RAM usage (in MB as well as % of total RAM)
    2. CPU usage - Visio and all other programs
    3. Were there any other graphic intensive software running simultaneously?
    4. Are you projecting your laptop to an external monitor?

    Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-10T20:15:40+00:00

    Is it all drawings? Irrespectiveof the number of shapes or types of shape?

    Do you have a drawing that is always slow for you that I could try?

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-12-09T19:14:31+00:00

    Agree to this. It's impossible to work in Visio 2013. Very SLOW, especially user stencils

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