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superspotter

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Oooh it's slow!
« on: October 14, 2011, 07:21:55 AM »
I sure this will have been covered before and I apologise now in advance for not searching but...my airnav is taking forever to start up when starting my laptop. OK, around two minutes but that is an eternity for a programme surely? I think I remember reading that one way to speed up the start was to delete old data, I have done that but it has made no noticable difference. Anything else I should be doing?? kind regards clive.
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 07:23:39 AM »
Are you using the latest navdata database?  If so, then that has slowed down startup for me as well.

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2011, 07:25:43 AM »
No, I am using an aftermarket one, DbPop.
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 08:20:16 AM »
No, I am using an aftermarket one, DbPop.

Maybe there's a problem with the database provided by DbPop?

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2011, 08:29:14 AM »
How many entries does your database have?

During the load up, RadarBox does some validation checks on the database as well as loading some to memory. The larger the database the more work it needs to do on startup.
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 08:33:24 AM »
If Iam looking in the right place, 176691 entries. regards clive.
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2011, 08:33:51 AM »
Hi,
Maybe this is what it causes,here it is
When the network is down and this happened 20 min ago
radarbox takes a log time time to start
When the network is oke and i start radarbox,no problem
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 08:37:15 AM »
Thanks satbopper but Im afraid it happens every start-up. regards clive.
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 09:05:28 AM »
If Iam looking in the right place, 176691 entries. regards clive.

If that is 176,000+ aircraft, then that could cause slow startup.  Although I only startup my RB about once a week, and leave it running 24x7.  When I do startup, with 126,000+ aircraft, it is painfully slow - 75 seconds.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2011, 09:09:25 AM by tarbat »

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 09:07:50 AM »
Thanks Tarbat, as always, for your insight. I guess I will just have to live with it!
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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 10:06:17 PM »
I log in fresh every time I use it.  It can regularly take circa 6-8mins.  Sometimes it loads 3d on startup.  I prefer 2d view.  It will then usually 'not respond' for circa 5 mins whilst closing 3d map and opening 2d map interface.  Regularly it is 15-20 mins from hitting start before I have the 2d map I want on the screen.   

I have latest 125K DB, around 17K of photo thumbnails (only since 1 Jan 11), every of Rod's and Bones Logos and outlines.

Tonight I know I hit the Airnav startup at 19:05 (as the end credits of a programme I was watching were rolling).  The first aircraft logged in mylog is 19:22
« Last Edit: October 14, 2011, 10:09:26 PM by ACW367 »

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2011, 08:03:41 AM »
ACW367 - why do you just not start up in 2D?

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2011, 08:52:50 AM »
ACW367 - why do you just not start up in 2D?

I try to set it up as such - but I never know if it will do it.  Sometimes it directly launches the 3D interface, sometimes it lauches direct to the 2D interface but never to the default.ml3 map or the one that was on there when I previously logged off.

Today I timed the start process
9:05 start button pressed, green tablet appears
9:09 green tablet disappears and interface opens (not responding)
9:10 2D map (not the defualt.ml3 or map I primarily use) and local flights appear
9:11 change of 2D map initiated, software not responding, no network flights
9:15 2D map changes local flights responding - no aircraft in mylog from 9:11-9:15
9:17 network flights come up - ready to go

Only 12 minutes today - better than the norm.

The one thing I hope the next version (after a bug fixing patch of course) is that they speed up the startup process and let users specifically set up all startup criteria in the preferences.

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2011, 10:33:28 AM »
ACW367,

Probably 'teaching granny to suck eggs' but regarding the map on start up not being correct are you going into Window>Record Desktop before logging off ?

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Re: Oooh it's slow!
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2011, 10:43:17 AM »
I start up fresh every day and only takes around 2 minutes to start and always in 2D as I want it to.

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