That was it!!! Earlier, I answered that I didnât see any A: drive listed anywhere in Windows, but that was before I looked in the Bios.
Claes asked me to check whether the SSDâs run in IDE or AHCI mode. So, I opened the BIOS and indeed all disks run in AHCI mode. Doing so, I saw a question whether there is or not a floppy drive on A: that was set to YES. I selected NO and rebooted.
Now the gtk2 build starts in 6 s. I will try the gtk3 build next.
Thankâs so much every one for your help. This problem is solved as far as I am concerned.
Yes it was and I am fortunate it was because I donât boot Windows that often on my main PC. I feel Windows10 is much better that Vista and more like Windows7 which is what I use on my slates.
Programs are normally lively on my setup except for RT. That was before I did a small change in a BIOS setting.
Thanks to your questions and ilias_giarimis suggestion, I found out that there is an option in the BIOS asking whether there is or not a Floppy connected. After setting that option properly (I have no floppy installed) RT now starts quickly.
(Edit) Now the gtk3 and the gtk2 build both start in less than 7 s.
Itâs my fault that I didnât reported the solution in time
@Morgan_Hardwood although the right solution could be correcting GTK behavior by GTK gurus, until then, an item in RT_Wiki and in Rawtherapee.com/Downloads would help âŠ
@rlx009 you havenât answered whether you tried GIMP or other Gtk±using programs. Could you re-enable drive A and test?
Notable software which use Gtk:
GIMP
Inkscape
GParted
MyPaint
Pidgin
XChat
I donât know which of those use the GtkFileChooser, so it would be best if you tried several of them.
And another thing. If you edit your âoptionsâ file, and set verbose=true, then run RawTherapee from the command prompt, can you paste the log here and mark at which point it paused for a long time?
Sorry, I missed your question. I didnât have any of those on my main PC since I would normally use them in Linux and maybe I didnât always have much success in the past when I tried them on Windows â except for MyPaint that works beautifully on my tablet PCâs. Anyway, following your question I loaded Gimp, Indscape and Pidgin on my Win10 PC and here are the results.
By the way the exact wording for the Bios option in my case is âLegacy diskette Aâ and the options offered are âDisableâ, âŠ, â1.44M 3.5inâ.
After setting âLegacy diskette Aâ to â1.44M 3.5inâ in the BIOS,
RT takes 4 min to start.
Gimp shows a window right away looking for fonts. Then the window disappears. !6 min later, the main Gimp window didnât even show up.
Inkspace starts in 4 s and is fully operational from this point.
Pidging starts right away and asks me to open an account which I donât have. So the test ends here.
After setting âLegacy diskette Aâ to âDisabledâ in the BIOS,
RT takes 6s to start.
Gimp shows a window right away. Then the window disappears. Oh!, there is a thin vertical bar on the left end of the screen. After dragging that and resizing I get a normal Gimp that works fine. On the second try the Gimp window opens normally in the middle of the screen (not at the edge).
Inkspace starts in 4 s and is fully operational from this point.
Pidging starts right away and asks me to open an account which I donât have. So the test ends here.
I will have to repeat the test for Gimp with Diskette A enabled before I can conclude.
(Edit) Doing the test once again with Gimp.
After setting âLegacy diskette Aâ to â1.44M 3.5inâ in the BIOS,
RT is back to 4 min load time.
Gimp loads in ~6 s. The window is at the right place now in the middle of the screen and operates normally.
The conclusion is that out of those four GTk based programs, only RT is impacted by the âLegacy diskette Aâ selection in the BIOS.
Now changing PC from my Win10 PC to my tablet PC running Win7. I have RT 32-bit installed (4.1.64) on that PC, and that one doesnât even show a window after close to an hour ( I started it on the slate when doing those tests on my Win10 PC). MyPaint starts quickly on that same PC. Lots of mysteriesâŠ
@rlx009 thank you for the detailed response. One thing I donât get:
It clearly affects GIMP too. The âlooking for fontsâ splash screen has no GtkFileChooser so it doesnât count, but the main GIMP window didnât show after 6 minutes.
When on googles âgtkfilechooser slowâ one finds a coal mine of posts and bug reports complaining about that widgetâs abysmal speed. Strange that Gtk+ doesnât do anything about it, those posts pertain to both Gtk2 and 3 spanning several years.
The first time I started Gimp on Windows, I didnât see the main Gimp window because it was mostly off-screen on the left. Thatâs what I believe. There are icons all over the left part of my screen and the portion of the Gimp window on the screen as I saw it on my second try was a thin vertical line which was quite easy to miss. I saw that line the second time I tried because, at that point, I felt mystified and looked more closely.
It happened to me before on my TabletPC that I started a program and the window opened off-screen. That was the first time I met that issue on Win10.
Thatâs right, my experience is that Gimp starts quickly whatever that âLegacy diskette Aâ setting is set to in the Bios. RT is sensitive to that setting though.
I believe you are talking about delays when opening files from the Gtk file browser. Isnât that a different issue than the slow start problem? I ask since I am new to those problems. I did a quick search on Google and found some people experiencing delays on NFS and Samba. My own experience using Gimp on Windows earlier today is that I found it surprisingly responsive, and I didnât experience any abnormal delay. I didnât try opening a file on the network yet. I will do that the next time I boot my PC. Well I just tried minutes ago to open a network file from RT on the TabletPC but the network locations are not listed within RT.
Weâd need to send you a build with debug messages displayed at various stages while loading to be sure. Speaking of which, have you had time to try the âverbose=trueâ test I mentioned?
My bad. I also missed that one. Here are the results.
First, about the Gimp test. Why the Gimp window was off-screen in the first place? I think I have some clue.
This PC is dual-monitor with the main monitor on the right and the left monitor turned off most of the time. So any activity on the left monitor might escape my attention.
That PC initially ran Vista and I likely installed Gimp at least once and then uninstalled Gimp but the config file, which is created after the install was leftover. After the migration to Win10 the Gimp config file was probably still there and the new Gimp install I did yesterday reused that old Gimp config file. So if the last time I used Gimp on Vista, the main Gimp window was on my left monitor, thatâs where the new Gimp install would start it.
Back to your question, here is the listing you asked for. That test was done after I set âLegacy diskette Aâ to â1.44 MB 3.5 inâ in the BIOS. I list the output of the RT console. I included some lines of the Mingw console but didnât include the full listing since it is long and uninformative. I will post it if you need it though.
2016-10-10
All times are Greenwich based and rounded to the minute.
My notes are in brackets <>. RT wrote on its own console.
<14:35 On Mingw console>
> (date; rawtherapee.exe 2>&1; date) | tee /d/live/Downloads_Windows/start_rawtherapee.txt
...
file c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\.\profiles\Skintones\Skintones - StudioBase 1 TM.pp3...OK
file c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\.\profiles\Skintones\Skintones - StudioBase 1.pp3...OK
<14:36 On RawTherapee-4.2.1234 console.>
RawTherapee, version 4.2.1234
WARNING: closing this window will close RawTherapee!
< After a couple of minutes. My notes>
**************** FileCatalog::getFilter *** AFTER STEP 1
filter.showRanked[0] = 1
filter.showRanked[1] = 1
filter.showRanked[2] = 1
filter.showRanked[3] = 1
filter.showRanked[4] = 1
filter.showRanked[5] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[0] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[1] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[2] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[3] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[4] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[5] = 1
filter.showEdited[0] = 1
filter.showEdited[1] = 1
filter.showRecentlySaved[0] = 1
filter.showRecentlySaved[1] = 1
<14:38 RT white screen. My note>
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
(rawtherapee.exe:360): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to fetch network locations: Error
opening directory 'c:\Program Files\RawTherapeeMaster\network:': No such file or
directory
<14:39 RT screen all painted. My note>
**************** FileCatalog::getFilter *** AFTER STEP 1
filter.showRanked[0] = 1
filter.showRanked[1] = 1
filter.showRanked[2] = 1
filter.showRanked[3] = 1
filter.showRanked[4] = 1
filter.showRanked[5] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[0] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[1] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[2] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[3] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[4] = 1
filter.showCLabeled[5] = 1
filter.showEdited[0] = 1
filter.showEdited[1] = 1
filter.showRecentlySaved[0] = 1
filter.showRecentlySaved[1] = 1
<14:50 Crtl-Q Exit RT>
<14:51 Exit script>