MuseScore Freezes When Opening A File

• Feb 22, 2015 - 06:48
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
active
Project

After I told MuseScore to open a file, the program froze and my mouse became completely unresponsive until the score finished opening.

To be more objective about it, I've attached a screen recording. At the 00:00:20.574 mark, I clicked the "Open" button. The score is displayed at the 00:00:22.624 mark. 2.05 seconds passed.

According to http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/, 0.1 seconds is the limit for feeling like the computer is reacting instantaneously and exceeding 1.0 seconds will interrupt the "user's flow of thought".

Details:

- MuseScore nightly build (da1a230)
- Windows 7 SP1 x64 (English, United States)
- Solid state disk
- 8 GB RAM
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8700

Attachment Size
Screen Recording.7z 1.49 MB

Comments

I have similar issues - MS 2.0 (latest), icon on desktop - when I click-to-run the icon, program (MuseScore) freezes complete computer (UI, including mouse cursor, both direction-wise (moving the mouse cursor), and 'loading'-wise (rotating 'loading' cursor)), on average for a few seconds. After that, it works just normally.

Best regards,

Simon
S love nia

Using:
- MuseScore 2.0.0 (6e47f74; hey, where is 'Copy to clipboard' now? LOL)
- Win 7 Pro, 64 bit
- Dell Latitude e6320 laptop