Laggy scrolling

I have a relatively powerful PC... Why is the Logos program so laggy on my computer? Scrolling through resources is almost always glitchy and laggy. I'm a slight n00b so I wouldn't be surprised if its something on my end - simple fix etc. Can someone give me some pointers? I do have a lot of tabs attached to my layout for example, though I wouldn't have thought it would be an issue for my laptop... ? Any help appreciated.

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JT (alabama24)

What kind of hard drive do you have? How much space and how much free?

Zac Brasch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1120660#Comment_1120660

Hey JT

Forgive lack of tech savvy, here’s some info:

Hope that helps.

Zac

The Flanary's

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1120663#Comment_1120663

This may or may not apply to you, but one of the things Morris Proctor said in his videos that has helped me out, is to collapse all of your fields when opening searches, guides, and the like. Every open drop down is a search, and if they are open they all run at one time. If you get in the habit of keeping them closed until you need them, the responsiveness is dramatically improved. The down-side is that all open by default, so the first time using any large tool, like factbook, requires you to collapse all the drop downs, but after that they will reopen the way you leave them

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1120663#Comment_1120663

Forgive lack of tech savvy, here’s some info:

No problem. I don't know much about HP's (or windows computers in general). I googled and I assume that all of those computers have an SSD (which stands for "solid state drive"). A "traditional" hard drive has a physical spinning plate inside. Any SSD is considerably faster than a traditional drive... so I assume your problem isn't because you have a traditional drive with a spinning plate.

The other user's comment about having "open fields" is a good thought... although I don't know if that would cause troubles in scrolling a book, or just cause troubles in scrolling a guide. I would think the latter.

In any case, here is something to try:

Close EVERYTHING out and create a brand new layout by simply opening up 5-6 resources. Don't open any guides or other tools. Actually, don't start with any bibles either. See what the response is like. Check out different resources and see if your experience changes. The open up a bible. By experimenting a bit you may be able to discover something that is causing difficulties.

Posting logs would also help a techie to diagnose the issue. See my signature line.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1120768#Comment_1120768

Close EVERYTHING out and create a brand new layout by simply opening up 5-6 resources. Don't open any guides or other tools. Actually, don't start with any bibles either. See what the response is like. Check out different resources and see if your experience changes. The open up a bible. By experimenting a bit you may be able to discover something that is causing difficulties.

Excellent idea. In my layout, one resource had been a linking hog (I delinked and he snorted a little), and my CitedBy's were open (closed them). Otherwise, my super-duper 150+ layout runs fine on an older PC w/SSD.

I suspect each is different.

Gregory Lawhorn

I have a relatively powerful PC... Why is the Logos program so laggy on my computer? Scrolling through resources is almost always glitchy and laggy. I'm a slight n00b so I wouldn't be surprised if its something on my end - simple fix etc. Can someone give me some pointers? I do have a lot of tabs attached to my layout for example, though I wouldn't have thought it would be an issue for my laptop... ? Any help appreciated.

There have already been some good suggestions. Here are a couple more.

First, get an idea of what scrolling is like by having nothing but a Bible open. Scrolling will not get any better than that on your system.

Second, add just a couple of linked resources, like a couple of commentaries. See how scrolling works under that situation.

Third, open a second Bible panel with your preferred Bible. Link one of the panels to your resources, and use the non-linked panel for chasing down parallels and cross references.

Fourth, in my typical study layout, my Bible text is only linked to two panels, so it's fairly streamlined. The panels are:

a Bible Word Studies panel (so that clicking on a word brings up some basic information), and
a custom Guide with Word by Word at the top, and then several commentary sections, with custom collections of commentaries.

The more resources you link, the slower your system will respond. I use several different guides for different parts of sermon prep: lexical work, commentaries, exegesis, and final assembly (which has sections for music and outlines).