Keyboard Movement SUPER Sluggish after update...
duckbomb
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I ran a DIM update for the first time in weeks, downloaded and installed all of my new products (the ultra-realistic scenery system package failed because of some other install failure, maybe related?) and now all of a sudden navigating the viewport with aswd keys is SUPER sluggish and non-responsive.
ANy thoughts? It's basically made DAZ unuseable because I can fly around the viewport like I could... like... 10 minutes ago :(
EDIT: I now seee this black version box (image attached) on the popup window I've never seen before... parhas a new version? I restarted my computer and same behaviour... this sucks
EDIT2: I see there's a DAZ Studio update in DIM still... maybe it didn't install correctly? Gonna try it now and be right back lol
EDIT3: Nope, wasn't the update. I'm not fully updated, nothing in DIM, and it's still barely responsive. Tried a new keyboard, as well... any ideas, or anybody else seeing this?
EDIT4: I made some progress... if anybody is interesting... it seems that undocking the viewport window fixes the sluggishness when the new window (viewport) is selected. When I'm in the smart content, however, the AWSD keys ALSO act as arrow keys, so it's both scrolling through the content AND navigating the viewport at the same time. It's so strange, I've verified that the keys are not actually doing two actions, so it's something in DAZ that's saying "when BOTH the viewport and content pane is active, WASD will navigate both". By undocking the viewport, I now have to manually toggle between the two, but at least when I'm in the viewport only I'm not seeing any sluggishness. It's still a huge PITA, but I'm assuming maybe a bug (hopefully?) that will get corrected with a future update.
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Have you tried using [ and ] to adjust the speed?
Hey thanks for taking a stab at this! yes, it's unfortunately not a speed thing. The whole screen just jumps all over the place, like it's struggling to even move at all. It looks like it has something to do with the viewport being active at the same time any smart content is. By separating the windows, the problem goes away, but this means that I can't have the viewport docked and I have to remember to switch back and forth...
OK I think I figured something out... when I'm in smart content, or anywhere in DAZ, and I hit the "C" button, it scrolls through all of the options that start with C... if I press A (like I want to move left in the viewport), it's SIMULTANEOUSLY scrolling through everything that starts with A in the content pane.
Is there any way to completely turn off this behaviour? It's not just in smart content, but also in any content window... I dont' want to scroll through things that start with "A" if I hit the "A" key... surely there's a way to disable this?
OK ANOTHER EDIT: I fouud your post that said "Shift-K will disable the keyboard shortcuts on the view port", and it DOES, but when I click on anything in the content pane the viewport moves again when using the keyboard to scroll through products starting with the letter I'm typing. Is this something that is known? Clicking on the undocked viewport window I can no longser navigate with AWSD until I hit "Shift-K" again.
Yes, I see the key press doing double duty - I have a feeling this is new, from when I used to start typing with focus not in the filter box, and the viewport moved but I didn't get the contenbt pane jumping. Certainly worth a report, though I'm not sure what the expected behaviour would be.
Ok, thanks, I reported it via my ticket, so we'll see. For now, the workaround seems to be keeping the viewport to a separate window...