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alexvojacek

Join Date 11/2021

Start11 makes windows general rendering laggy

This issue is driving me nuts. It seems Start11 introduces an extra latency somewhere on the entire Windows Desktop Manager somehow.

The single most easy way to check for this issue is to start Start11 and then open the Task Manager and close it, you will see a 1 second delay on the Task Manager before disappearing. The window appears to be stuck for a second and then dissapears.

As soon as I stop Start11 the latency dissapears and I regain my instant speed on opening/closing windows.

What is going on here?. This is a deal breaker for me, is there anything that I could disable on the program that could speed things up?.

I'm on Windows 10 with latest NVIDIA drivers and an RTX3080 with a Ryzen 9 3950X

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I've found the setting that is creating the latency. It is the setting to show the Start Button.

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Tastkbar -> Advanced Options -> Show start button on the primary monitor taskbar

If that option is set to OFF, meaning that Start works by means of pressing the start button, everything is snappy. As soon as I enable the Start button icon, everything starts to lag again, visible when windows are closing.

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I feel cheap but I somehow fixed this by means of TaskBarX

The start button that you guys are inserting is creating lag and latency all over.

I've remember that TaskbarX allowed to insert the start button by means of a shortcut onto the taskbar as a "Windows Button" app call.

The direct link for the icon shortcut is: "C:\Program Files\taskbarx\TaskbarX.exe" -showstartmenu

With this neat trick, I am only using taskbarX to open up YOUR START11 start menu and the latency is gone, because I disabled the option to show the Start button from Start11

Surely If I can make the start button work with this trick and without latency, you can fix the start button latency.

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Nobody else spotted the increase in latency by using the start button?.

I would be glad if someone does this same test and can confirm this is happening

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Quoting alexvojacek,

reply 3

Nobody else spotted the increase in latency by using the start button?.

I would be glad if someone does this same test and can confirm this is happening

This appears to be specific to closing TaskManager, possibly because of the system tray icon is destroys too.

We have resolved this for the next update, thanks for reporting this.

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OH THANK YOU SO MUCH!.

As soon as you have an update file, would you be so kind to post it here?. I will be the first one to test it out.

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Any news regarding the update?.

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basj

Join Date 03/2001

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There is a new beta release Start11 V1.18 : You can refer here : https://forums.stardock.com/511199

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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I've tried it. But it doesn't seem to fix the issue with the Start Button and the Task Manager. It is still closing awfully slow when the Start button is present.

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basj

Join Date 03/2001

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Please report your issue on that Feedback thread, so Support and Dev team can see and help from there.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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I've described the issue on this same thread and you said that you've fixed this in the next release.

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basj

Join Date 03/2001

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I did not said it. Neil said it. He the main Dev. And he did use "possibly" in his word. So this might be something else. Best to wait and see what his input on this.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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Quoting alexvojacek,

reply 10

I've described the issue on this same thread and you said that you've fixed this in the next release.

This was resolved based on testing here.

Please uninstall Start11, REBOOT and then install the update.

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Oh thank you!. I will try this right away!

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Thank you so much for fixing this so quick. The issue appears to be solved now.

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