VC IDE Speed problems

having real problems with speed running on a Dual PPro200, 128MB, UW SCSI etc. Its fine until I start editing dialogs etc. Large project (>200 cpp/h, lots of resources). Then slows to absolute crawl (10s to open a dialog for editing). Rest of machine is working fine.

Have tried turning off all statement auto complete, and have also deleted the .ncb file. Fixed it for a while, then ncb size increased a lot, which is what I think causes the problem.

I dont use the class view stuff, so is there anything I can do to speed up the ncb stuff (like turning it off).

This has only started to happen in the last few weeks (previous 4 years no problem!!)

Any help appreciated.

James Hughes

This happened to a guy here at work. He had literally hundreds of breakpoints set. Try deleting all breakpoints and see if that helps.

Hi Roger,

nice idea, tried it (got rid of about 30), but made no difference.

I still think it is to do with the size of the NCB file 9about 1.5 MB in my case). I need to stop the IDE from scanning it everytime I do something!!!

Any ideas anyone

Rgds

James

Hi.

I have tried to delete the *.ncb file, and the size went from 2.9 MB to about 230 KB, next time I started Studio. I have a feeling that this file grows all the time - nice feature ;-(

Please see Q236399 HOWTO: Troubleshoot Visual C++ Performance Problems

1 year ago, I disabled the option "Double click in the dialog editor edits code" option in the compatibility tab of the options dialog.I hided Wizardbar, deleted all the ncb. opt. and other unnecessary files,Restarted my computer and got a huge speed increase.