PowerPoint Lagging like Crazy!

[Jetfighter808]

So I have a PowerPoint presentation on my Sandisk Ultra 32gb USB. Whenever I edit the presentation (like zoom in and scroll up and down) it lags like crazy. Instead of having a smooth scroll animation, it's so jerky. It's like watching a PowerPoint of a scrolling animation, Is it due to my USB stick being too slow to load the rest of the PowerPoint in time?

 

Thanks!

[BiggHertz]

Have you loaded it to your primary HDD, and retested, to verify that it simply isn't a poorly implemented PowerPoint presentation? 

 

-Jason

[Jetfighter808]

Have you loaded it to your primary HDD, and retested, to verify that it simply isn't a poorly implemented PowerPoint presentation? 

 

-Jason

 

No better ;-(

[BiggHertz]

What are you attempting to open this on? HW/SW wise?

 

-Jason

[Jetfighter808]

A laptop with a i5 processor (4 threads 2 cores), 6GB's of Ram, Some crappy radeon graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and a 500gb hard disk.I am using a USB 3.0 memory stick.

[Sharp_3yE]

A laptop with a i5 processor (4 threads 2 cores), 6GB's of Ram, Some crappy radeon graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and a 500gb hard disk.I am using a USB 3.0 memory stick.

We first need to figure out what is causing this.

First, put the USB stick into a different PC. See if it happens in a different PC.

If it doesn't happen then it is your PC.

If it does happen, copy the file to the hard drive. Try it out.

If it doesn't happen from the copied file, its your USB stick.

If it does still happen, then it might be a software issue.

Tell us the results so we can help you either.

[BiggHertz]

We first need to figure out what is causing this.

First, put the USB stick into a different PC. See if it happens in a different PC.

If it doesn't happen then it is your PC.

If it does happen, copy the file to the hard drive. Try it out.

If it doesn't happen from the copied file, its your USB stick.

If it does still happen, then it might be a software issue.

Tell us the results so we can help you either.

 

User copied to HDD at my suggestion, no marked performance improvement.

 

-Jason

[BiggHertz]

A laptop with a i5 processor (4 threads 2 cores), 6GB's of Ram, Some crappy radeon graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and a 500gb hard disk.I am using a USB 3.0 memory stick.

 

Should be plenty to run a PowerPoint Presentation.

Just a sanity check, is laptop running in battery saver mode?

 

What size is the file?

Is there a large amount of embedded content?

Is there referenced content to external resources?

Is there a large amount of animated elements on each slide?

PPT or PPTX?

What version of PowerPoint are you opening this with? PowerPoint? PowerPoint Viewer? 

 

Thanks,

 

-Jason

[Jetfighter808]

We first need to figure out what is causing this.

1. First, put the USB stick into a different PC. See if it happens in a different PC.

If it doesn't happen then it is your PC.

2. If it does happen, copy the file to the hard drive. Try it out.

If it doesn't happen from the copied file, its your USB stick.

If it does still happen, then it might be a software issue.

Tell us the results so we can help you either.

 

1. Happens on the schools PC too so its not the PC being dodgy,

 

2. No better.

[Jetfighter808]

Should be plenty to run a PowerPoint Presentation.

Just a sanity check, is laptop running in battery saver mode?

 

1. What size is the file?

2. Is there a large amount of embedded content?

3. Is there referenced content to external resources?

4. Is there a large amount of animated elements on each slide?

5. PPT or PPTX?

What version of PowerPoint are you opening this with? PowerPoint? PowerPoint Viewer? 

 

Thanks,

 

-Jason

 

1. 5.92MB (Will get larger as I add blender renders and more images.)

 

2. Lots of text and and 20 images (more of both will be coming later.)

 

3. No

 

4. No

 

5. PPTX

 

6. PowerPoint 2010

 

Thanks for the help guys

[BiggHertz]

1. 5.92MB (Will get larger as I add blender renders and more images.)

 

2. Lots of text and and 20 images (more of both will be coming later.)

 

3. No

 

4. No

 

5. PPTX

 

6. PowerPoint 2010

 

Thanks for the help guys

 

Strange, without having hands on one's file, it really is a tough to t/s.

 

Just to confirm, this only occurs in editing mode or while in presentation mode?

 

One could render as video once completed, just need to work on all of the timing elements.

 

-Jason

[Jetfighter808]

Just when editing.

[BiggHertz]

This might actually be normal-ish behavior. just opened an old PowerPoint doc,zoomed in and scrolled, it isn't smooth per-say, but isn't laggy either, are you clicking and dragging the scroll bar,scroll wheel(s),scroll bar arrows?

 

-Jason

[Jetfighter808]

@BiggHertz Wait Wait.... When I scroll on an slide with a really big image it's really laggy. When I go on a slide with mostly text,, there is only artifacts at the top and bottom of the slide. Same thing happens when zooming. Looks like a slideshow when zooming into the slide with loads of images but pretty smooth on text only.

[BiggHertz]

@BiggHertz Wait Wait.... When I scroll on an slide with a really big image it's really laggy. When I go on a slide with mostly text,, there is only artifacts at the top and bottom of the slide. Same thing happens when zooming. Looks like a slideshow when zooming into the slide with loads of images but pretty smooth on text only.

sounds kinda normal to me =)

[Jetfighter808]

sounds kinda normal to me =)

 

When I get an SSD I will see if it is the same story.

[BiggHertz]

When I get an SSD I will see if it is the same story.

does on mine with ssd =)

[Jetfighter808]

@BiggHertz Wonder why?

[BiggHertz]

@BiggHertz Wonder why?

probably how the software has to re-render the multiple layers of objects =)

[jollander]

Does it also take longer than usual to load the file and slides?

 

We bumped in to an issue at work where files saved from my computer would lag the living hell out of other (even identical) computers. To fix it, we just copied all the slides from my saved file on to a fresh ppt and saved that. On someone elses computer ofc.