Xboard sluggish on OSX
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:26 am
Since about a week or so I found that Xboard has become unbearably slow on OSX.
I'm normally using the installation from macports, because that allows me to use multiple boards simultaneously. (eg. being able to be on FICS as well as running a local game in another window, and being able to launch different use cases from the command line from an alias).
All was fine until one or two weeks ago. I'm not sure what changed. Maybe just a "sudo port upgrade outdated". I really don't remember.
I uninstalled xboard from macports and reinstalled to no avail.
I upgraded to El Capitan to no avail.
I removed all macports and reinstalled.
I seem to have gone from 4.7.3 to 4.8 doing that. Problem still there.
The symptom is that all drawing is sluggish. You can see the arrow being drawn. You can see that long arrows take more time to draw than short ones. You can see it updates the to and from square twice for each move. When the whole board changes, you can see the order in which the squares are updated. When you follow a fast game on FICS, the GUI update is so slow that the display can be more than a minute behind from reality, all the time updating moves that are played faster than xboard can keep track of. When you let two engines play 1 0 or so, it does nothing but updating the board and the menus are inaccessible.
Any others with similar problems recently? It used to be very snappy.
I'm normally using the installation from macports, because that allows me to use multiple boards simultaneously. (eg. being able to be on FICS as well as running a local game in another window, and being able to launch different use cases from the command line from an alias).
All was fine until one or two weeks ago. I'm not sure what changed. Maybe just a "sudo port upgrade outdated". I really don't remember.
I uninstalled xboard from macports and reinstalled to no avail.
I upgraded to El Capitan to no avail.
I removed all macports and reinstalled.
I seem to have gone from 4.7.3 to 4.8 doing that. Problem still there.
The symptom is that all drawing is sluggish. You can see the arrow being drawn. You can see that long arrows take more time to draw than short ones. You can see it updates the to and from square twice for each move. When the whole board changes, you can see the order in which the squares are updated. When you follow a fast game on FICS, the GUI update is so slow that the display can be more than a minute behind from reality, all the time updating moves that are played faster than xboard can keep track of. When you let two engines play 1 0 or so, it does nothing but updating the board and the menus are inaccessible.
Any others with similar problems recently? It used to be very snappy.