Slowness GIMP 2.10 x WINDOWS 10 64bits

[Ofnuts]

(05-30-2018, 10:15 AM)rich2005 Wrote: The Gimp 2.10.2 slowness is not going to be fixed by re-enabling the old Windows viewer It is a hardware problem, probably your graphics card.

Two possibly different problems here:

1) Gimp is slow when doing graphics operations (say, a Gaussian blur): the new Gimp can try to use the graphics card as a "super-CPU". If it does and the card driver isn't too good for this, this may make Gimp slow. This is enabled/disabled with Edit > Preferences > System resources > Hardware acceleration > Use OpenCL. If it it not set, set it, and if is set, disable it, and see if it changes things.

2) Gimp is slow for general UI (sluggish dialogs, etc...). Then, no idea

Also what is your RAM size and what is the value of Edit > Preferences > System resources > Resource consumption > Tile cache size?

[Maria]

(05-30-2018, 10:15 AM)rich2005 Wrote:

(05-29-2018, 11:03 PM)Maria Wrote: Does this mean that the GIMP 2.8 directories can be removed?

The GIMP 2.10 interface may be slow because Windows is trying to open images with GIMP 2.8, as the screenshot I posted shows?

Keep C:\Users\Maria\.gimp-2.8 you might need it in the future.

The way the Windows Gimp 2.10 installer works is:
1. Gimp 2.8 is uninstalled
2. Gimp 2.10 installs in the same place C:\Program Files\GIMP 2 (what was gimp 2.8)
3. The first time Gimp 2.10 is run, a new Gimp 2.10 profile is created C:\Users\Maria\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10
4. Resources (scripts / plugins /brushes etc) are copied from C:\Users\Maria\.gimp-2.8 to C:\Users\Maria\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10

Possible problems for you.
C:\Users\Maria\AppData is a Windows 'hidden folder' to easily use it, enable hidden folders. Do a search or
see: https://www.technipages.com/show-hidden-files-windows

The Gimp 2.10.2 slowness is not going to be fixed by re-enabling the old Windows viewer It is a hardware problem, probably your graphics card.

As a long shot you could try an alternative version, one from http://www.partha.com

If that gives no improvement, I recommend going back to Gimp 2.8.22

If you lost your gimp 2.8.22 installer get it here: https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gim...-setup.exe

Did you see the image I posted with the reference to GIMP 2.8 in the "Value data" box when I tried to re-enable Seven's photo viewer on windows 10?

On the Partha's page I read this statement:

"File Association

Remove all references to the software you are installing from the registry and then use Windows to associate this version with your desired image formats. "

And would like to know if it refers to replacing "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff" with some instruction related to GIMP 2.10? Can you explain to me what Partha is referring to in this excerpt from his tutorial?

[rich2005]

(06-02-2018, 12:37 AM)Maria Wrote: Did you see the image I posted with the reference to GIMP 2.8 in the "Value data" box when I tried to re-enable Seven's photo viewer on windows 10?

On the Partha's page I read this statement:

"File Association

Remove all references to the software you are installing from the registry and then use Windows to associate this version with your desired image formats. "

And would like to know if it refers to replacing "PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff" with some instruction related to GIMP 2.10? Can you explain to me what Partha is referring to in this excerpt from his tutorial?

I did look at your screenshot, not a good idea to edit the registry in that manner unless you are certain you know what you are doing.

Seems to me you have two questions.

Last one first. Using partha's gimp you will need to set file associations for this version. Plenty of examples on the internet if you do not get the following.

First thing to get is the Windows 10 file association settings: Do a search for associations - choose Change file type...
screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/i3PXGaF.jpg

Now a lot in one screenshot (1) For any particular image type - say .jpg - click on it (2) that gives some options but not Gimp so click on More apps (3) Still no Gimp so click on Look for another app (4) Browse and find GIMP-2.10.n.exe and click Open. screenshot https://i.imgur.com/NJgISt2.jpg

Windows is a PITA, you need to do that for each file type you use, .png .tif Clicking on an image opens in Gimp..example https://i.imgur.com/aonn9aN.jpg

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The earlier question was enabling the Windows 7 photoviewer in Windows 10 in the (vain) hope that it makes thing faster.

Editing the registry for this is a bit complicated, thankfully there are something.reg files around to do the job for you.
see this page: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1431...-10-a.html

Download the file Restore_Windows_Photo_Viewer_CURRENT_USER.reg Click on that gets a sequence like this. https://i.imgur.com/i1ZM1PY.jpg

Now back to the Win 10 Change Associations. https://i.imgur.com/XT9Bm8W.jpg

There is now an option for Windows Photo Viewer choose that https://i.imgur.com/lQrmQdI.jpg repeat for the other file types you use.

That will open an image in the old Win 7 viewer. https://i.imgur.com/IgicyR0.jpg
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Very difficult to diagnose a flaky windows installation at a distance, could be all sorts slowing things down, Anti-virus is always a suspect, anything running in the background.

[Maria]

Thank you, Rich2005.

I did the uninstallation of GIMP 2.8 and also removed GIMP 2.10 using RevoUninstaller.

After that, I did the registry editing procedure to re-enable the Seven photo viewer in Windows 10. This was something I wanted to do to change the photo viewer, because I really hated the version of that tool in Windows 10. My brain works faster with simple white background images and loading images got much faster after rehabbing Seven's photo viewer. Only for viewing images regardless of GIMP.

So I re-installed GIMP 2.10. And my question was motivated by the fact that, in the first attempt to re-enable Seven's photo viewer, there was a reference to GIMP 2.8 in the "value data" box. What I needed to know is if I should put some value there for GIMP 2.10.

I had already requested drivers for Windows 10 from the manufacturer of my computer and it had sent me links only to Windows 8. But, I made a new request and it sent me the correct links.

A friend from college times who is a networking technician has helped me choose the best graphics driver option. We used a remote access program to check the hardware configuration. We did it last night and it seemed a bit faster to open images in GIMP after installing the graphics driver. I still need to use GIMP more time to observe this. I'll let you know the GIMP test from here on out, so you know if it was the problem that was or was not resolved.

Very grateful for your attention and commitment to help me with this