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bwlawson

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Enterprise Architect runs very slowly
« on: January 12, 2011, 06:03:46 am »
I just installed the trial version or EA on windows 7.  It runs painfully slow, unusable really.  It takes between 6-8 seconds for most dialog boxes to open up, such as properties and options.  There is no way this tool could have gotten as popular as it is with performance this bad, so I'm sure there must be some solution.  Please help.

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Re: Enterprise Architect runs very slowly
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 08:21:29 am »
Could be a compatibility problem.

In the properties dialog of EA.exe in the EA install folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Sparx Systems\EA), select the Compatibility tab and uncheck "Run this program in compatibility mode for:". You might also check this for the EA shortcuts.

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Re: Enterprise Architect runs very slowly
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2011, 12:41:26 am »
Thanks for the reply, but its already unchecked.  

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Re: Enterprise Architect runs very slowly
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 06:11:52 pm »
I'm experiencing the exact same thing.  I am on Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition, running EA Ultimate Edition.  

Basically, any of the context menus are very slow.  Even those in the menu bar, plus, any operations seem very slow as well.  This is the only application that I am experiencing this on.  

If you learn anything about how to address this, I'd love to know as well.


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Re: Enterprise Architect runs very slowly
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 09:29:24 am »
Me too, I've installed the EA 9 Corporate two days ago, and I find all the interaction with the UI extremely slow, after having used EA 7.5 with pleasure for more than a year.

E.g., it takes 4-5 seconds to open a diagram on double-click from the project browser. More than 6 seconds to close UNchanged diagram. Using ctrl-up/down/etc. to move a class on the diagram also takes ages - one up/down/etc. result is rendered with more than 1 second delay. Not to talk about grouping several classes and trying to move them left/right/up/down.

My sad conclusion is that this version is far away from usable, and I'll have to spend several hours a day with it...

In compatibility tab of the ea.exe, everything is unchecked, as somebody mentioned above.

Any hint on how to bring back the old good snappy UI?

I was also hoping that the speed of some other lengthy operations would be improved after 2 years. For a model with no specials (~1350 classes, ~5300 attributes, ~1000 associations, ~60 dependencies, ~350 diagrams):
- opening the model in .eap file on local disk takes 7-8 seconds
- comparing baselines takes several minutes, even with only a couple of changes
- exporting XMI 1.1 takes 1min 25sec
- Java API is still terribly slow (I bet it's the same for C# API), no improvement in the implementation of chatty SQL queries at all...

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