General paging response problem - trashes first play-through on Mac - please read

• Sep 8, 2020 - 14:45

In 3.5.0 on Mac.

I leave MuseScore constantly open. I never close it except when installing OS or MS upgrades; many, many scores open (but not dirty) at once. If I do not use it for many hours (e.g., overnight) and then load up a new score of many parts, and start playing it, the sound is degraded horribly by what sounds like old radio static -- total hash.

Once I let it play for a few measures, and go back to the beginning, it performs adequately. Having worked in the guts of paging systems on couple of operating systems, I recognize this as paging overhead because of a working set paged out. It would be helpful if MS went through a section to be played as quickly as possible and touched all soundfont pages it expects to use.

It is embarrassing in this day and age.

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