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scjohn
12-01-2005, 02:45 AM
I switched over to version 5 from version 4, today, and everything is much slower. It takes 8 seconds for a Basic Entry Window to appear. All of the list boxes are slow in appearing. As are the pop-up windows (strategy managment). There is no snap/pop in version 5 like there is in version 4. In version 4 a Basic Entry Window appears in under 1 second. I am not running any charts.
I am running version 5.0.1000.3. I am running with an Intel P4 2.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM.
Any ideas on how to get version 5 to run faster?
NinjaTrader_Ray
12-01-2005, 03:08 AM
Are you running any other applications on your PC? Sounds like memory problems. NT5 responsivenss should be immediate.
scjohn
12-01-2005, 04:04 AM
I had 2 instances of Excel, a Word document and TWS running at the time.
The Basic Window instance that took 8 seconds to open was the 7th instance of a Basic Window to be started. Even the 1st instance of a Basic Window took almost 3 seconds to open.
Opening 10 instances of Basic Window using version 4 was never a problem. They always poped right up on the screen.
NinjaTrader_Ray
12-01-2005, 04:13 AM
Sounds like memory limitations. NT5 takes more memory than V4. NT5 takes anywhere from 40 MB+ depending on how many windows you have open. The more windows, the more memory. When you run into memory limitations, your computer uses virtual memory. This means a piece of your hard drive is allocated as a RAM subsitute. When virtual memory is used, serious computer sluggishness will occur.
I would consider using at least 1GB RAM for trading. That's what most trading resources recommend and what I personally use.
Ray
I havent run into v5 being sluggish but have found that as the day wears on, when you restore a super-dom from being minimized, they pop back up slower. I have v5 open from about 8am to around 4pm every day
Using 1 gig ram as well.
NinjaTrader_Dierk
12-02-2005, 01:39 AM
Cody,
What you experienced is related to windows memory management. As you don't use "parts of an app" for a while (e.g. DOME minimized), windows will swap it to disk and reload as you maximize.
Hope this helps
Whatever the problem was, in latest v5 it has gone away. Thanks!
NinjaTrader_Ray
12-12-2005, 12:36 AM
No problem. We did resolve this. See this post -
http://ninjatrader.mywowbb.com/forum5/554.html
Ray