Musescore lagging all of a sudden
For the past few days, Musescore suddenly became laggy. I did not change any preferences or other stuff, but it just started to lag. Just a few minutes ago, I updated to the new Musescore 3 release. However, it still lags. Now, it's so laggy that when I click playback it won't even load. Note inputs take like 4-5 seconds each. It's starting to drive me crazy. Can anyone help me please
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Are you using a particular soundfont?
Have you already tried https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/revert-factory-settings ?
In reply to Have you already tried https… by Shoichi
I tried reverting like six times. Still laggy.
Could also be your score is just enormous - it would have be probably thousands of pages long for note input to take five seconds, although other operations could take than long with scores that only, say, 100 pages.
If your score is not that big, please attach it so we can investigate.
In reply to Could also be your score is… by Marc Sabatella
I did not make this score, but it still lags the same with this. So, note input or any modification takes about 3-4 seconds each.
In reply to I did not make this score,… by BambooOnFire's…
It's not slow at all for me. Have you check to see if other processes on your system are perhaps hogging the CPU or RAM? Have you tried rebooting?
In reply to It's not slow at all for me… by Marc Sabatella
Nothing was hogging my CPU nor the RAM. I tried the same file with Musescore 2 and it works perfectly fine. I think the problem lies within Musescore 3. And yes, I have tried rebooting, resetting PRAM/NVRAM and everything else regarding restarting process.
In reply to Nothing was hogging my CPU… by BambooOnFire's…
Well, we're all using MuseScore 3 as well, and yet it's perfectly fast for us. Also, that particular score can't be loaded into MuseScore 2, so it must be a different version of the file you tried. My guess is you are simply out of RAM, since that is such a large soundfont. Have you tried unloading it and using the default instead?
In reply to Well, we're all using… by Marc Sabatella
I just tried unloading everything and tried the default SoundFont. I used the same mscz file I uploaded here. The lagging time decreased by a second but it is still laggy. I also ran a full antivirus scan of my Mac because who knows? It says I'm clean.
That long of a lag probably means you are in continuous view. Try page view and see if the lag goes away.
In reply to That long of a lag probably… by mike320
OT. @mike320, welcome back!
In reply to That long of a lag probably… by mike320
Or loaded the MDL extension and its huge soundfont
In reply to Or loaded the MDL extension… by Jojo-Schmitz
I am using this Steinway SoundFont that is around 1GB. But, one month ago, I was still using the same SoundFont and it did not lag at all. So, something happened apart from the SoundFont.
In reply to That long of a lag probably… by mike320
Sorry mate. I was already in page view when it lagged this much.