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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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I can confirm there is no difference with SP1. I've uninstalled 2013 and installed 2010 instead + Visio 2013 Viewer + Visio Compatibility pack. Grrr!
I am experiencing the exact same problem. I had visio drawings I created with 2010 and after uninstalling Visio 2010 and installing 2013, my system came to a screeching halt with performance. Moving images around with the mouse key is taking FOREVER and even zooming in and out takes 20-30 seconds just to focus. It's painfully slow and I'm seriously considering uninstalling and going back to 2010.
I just got Vision 2013 and put it on 2 computers.
On BOTH it is running crazy slow. And to replicate:
- Open Visio
- Click on Cross-Functional Flowchart
then try and do anything. Just slow. I'm going back to 2010
We investigated these issues and have released some improvements in the Jun Visio patch (fixes are around panning and zooming). The patch is present here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2878322/en-us
I just wanted to state that this problem does not appear to be isolated to the shapes window, or the pan and zoom function.
I have written vba for a high resolution timer, to measure the performance of a sub routine I am having issue with. I noticed that using dropmany in visio 2010 results in sub-second execution time; however using dropMany in Visio 2013 can take anywhere from 6.5 seconds to 22 seconds... depending on the number of shapes dropped.
I should note that I performed the exact same test, and executed the exact same sub-routing, in both versions... and can say with absolute certainty that dropMany seems to have been very poorly written for Visio 2013. I've also had a total of 8 co-workers also test this, 4 of them use Visio 2010, and another 4 use Visio 2013... and their results are identical to my own. So this also means that it is not an issue isolated to my computer, and that it is definitely a difference in the way that Visio 2010 and 2013 handle the dropMany function.
I will submit this as a bug... but I have absolutely no hope that Microsoft will fix this in a timely manner. I read all 5 pages of this thread, and it seems it took Microsoft nearly 2 years to fix the original problem mentioned. Visio is such an expensive product, and yet Microsoft seems to offer very poor support for it.