Length Of Time For Pre-Loading PowerPoint Slides

jdycus

Is it normal to take 5 minutes to pre-load a PowerPoint presentation with 12 slides and simple transistions? I use PowerPoint Viewer. I have a fairly fast PC: 3.1 GHz with 8 GB Ram. And if I close OpenLP, have to go through the long loading time again. Any way to save the "pre-loads?"

BillC

My experience is this should load in a max of 15 seconds unless the size of the powerpoint file is very large.
Have you checked how long it takes for powerpoint viewer to load the file? Also use task manager to see what resources are being consumed when you load the file within OpenLP.  Any chance your hardrive is nearly full or it is severely fragmented.

jdycus

It opens in PowerPoint Viewer almost instantly. Over 400 GB space left on hard drive, and I defrag often.

jdycus

Additional: I am using a portable version of OpenLP with program and all related data on an eSata drive. PowerPoint viewer installed on C:\ drive. Would this make any difference?

BillC

I've not used the portable version, so I can't comment on that.
If you go to settings and the Presentations page, make sure powerpoint viewer is checked and not powerpoint.

Jamie Hockin

We had this problem with PowerPoint (just never loaded the service). What was happening is that PowerPoint was requesting user input (it might have been a question about updates), but the user dialogue was never presented. So I opened PowerPoint on its own and dealt with its issue. Thereafter, there was no delay opening PowerPoint when OpenLP loaded the service.