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stevech Member Offline Posts: 147 Location: So. Calif. US Joined: Jun 16^th, 2013	why is my pc so slow with arduino Oct 4^th, 2014 at 5:19am	Print Post
	Installed Atmel Studio 6.1 then visual micro latest, on a laptop with win 7 home premium. I normally use a win7 desktop. Each time I run on the laptop, I see, in the output window Quote: This build would be faster if you upgraded to Visual Micro Gold Edition + USB debugger http://wwww.visualmicro.com Note four "w" wwww Is this a hack? The compile time is 150 seconds on this core 2 duo 4GHz laptop. 40% CPU. Desktop same build: 3 seconds. Something odd going on here. alas. independent of the above, I tried a build of blinky example using Arduino 1.05 IDE. Doggy slow too. CPU still rather low. Something odd here.
	« Last Edit: Oct 4^th, 2014 at 5:32am by Tim@Visual Micro »

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: fake or malware invaded Visual Micro? Reply #1 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 5:31am	Print Post
	No its just a typo we will fix in the next release Visual micro uses the Arduino tool chain so that's the reason why you see similar results. Sounds like a virus checker or disk issue


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stevech Member Offline Posts: 147 Location: So. Calif. US Joined: Jun 16^th, 2013	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #2 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 6:39am	Print Post
	What is visual micro gold edition with USB debugger? Is that the optional debugger add-on? I didn't recall the "gold" name, or didn't previously notice the promo. I'll keep looking for cause of slowness... I have no virus scanner other than MSE which isn't new. CPU isn't max'd. Nor disk. Task/process list has nothing untoward I can see.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #3 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 2:08pm	Print Post
	Hi, Yes Gold is the debugger. The debugger/gold is the top level upgrade, I expect to offer some lower level options in the future for users who want less for less I can't work out what to call things at the moment. Maybe Bronze, Silver, Gold. Current paid users will automatically be on the top tier. It might be an idea to run a check disk/scan disk and install https://www.malwarebytes.org/. Not sure if you have a hardware problem or software problem on the slow machine. How many drives in the pc? Plenty of disk space free?


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stevech Member Offline Posts: 147 Location: So. Calif. US Joined: Jun 16^th, 2013	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #4 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 6:51pm	Print Post
	In the invitation, it says Quote: This build would be faster if you upgraded to Visual Micro Gold Edition... I purchased the debugger long ago and have it installed. What will cause the build to be faster as said? Do I need to purchase/obtain a newer "gold" version for this build-speed improvement? I have the latest VM installed.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #5 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 8:23pm	Print Post
	I see, this means that you have re-installed windows or not activated the debugger on the pc that shows that message. When you are using a paid version of Visual Micro that message does not appear. When did you add/input your license key for that machine?


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stevech Member Offline Posts: 147 Location: So. Calif. US Joined: Jun 16^th, 2013	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #6 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 9:52pm	Print Post
	You are right. I'm mistaken.. the debugger license is on the desktop. Laptop doesn't have the debugger installed. (brain is aging). Why does the output window say your build would be faster if you bought the gold version? I thought the gold gave a debugger license, but this wouldn't affect the compiler / build.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: why is my pc so slow with arduino Reply #7 - Oct 4^th, 2014 at 10:13pm	Print Post
	Quote: Why does the output window say your build would be faster if you bought the gold version? I thought the gold gave a debugger license, but this wouldn't affect the compiler / build. Not enough people bought the debugger on its own so other features that are not available in the Arduino Ide are often included in the paid version. One of those features is a faster compiler which free users get approx. 60% of the time. The other 40% the message is displayed and a layer of cache ignored. There is a fine line between support and the number of sales v's price
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