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
    2014-10-07T19:27:47+00:00

    Hi Rich,

    I concur with you completely. We still find Visio 2013 to be borderline unusable due to the slowness in doing certain tasks. Our add-on software has been crippled by the changes and we are facing yet another rewrite to make our application functional.

    This is so bad that we recommend to our clients that if they have Visio 2010 licenses available to stick with 2010 and stay away from 2013. As for ourselves, we are exploring alternatives to Visio and will most likely move to dump it.

    I too don't have any expectation to see this issue fixed.

    Just my two cents.

    Carl

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-05T06:11:36+00:00

    Thanks for your suggestion It worked but still as you said its not up to par .....

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-07T21:27:31+00:00

    Like many of you, I arrived here via a web search for the solution to an app that runs so slow it is unusable.  I have tried all the recommendations offered by the good folk here and experienced zero detectable improvement. Given the number of years this problem has been known yet not addressed, my expectation is Microsoft will never fix it and will just roll on to the next version of Office.  Meanwhile, I've rolled back to Visio 2010 and don't anticipate changing away from it any time soon.  Very disappointing response Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-03-03T14:44:57+00:00

    Same issue.  I guess back to 2010 for me.

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  5. 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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