alice-teacher Alice 3 very sluggish

[Vanderhyde, James]

So I tried to use Alice 3 in class today for the first time, in the same lab with the same computers I have been using Alice 2 for years. They have embedded Intel graphics chips. Alice 3 is very sluggish. You have to wait half a second for the camera control to light up when hovering over it. Clicking in the scene does not always sleet objects. Sometimes the whole scene does not update until you do something else. The “Help with Graphics Problems” features also reports that clicking in the scene is working sub optimally. The drivers are all up to date.

Where are the graphics options on Alice 3 so that performance is better? These machines are not new, but they’re not that old, either. They should be able to handle an application like this. They run Unity with no problem, for example. What can I do to make Alice 3 usable? It’s going to take forever for the students to accomplish anything in this class. Is there anything we can do to improve responsiveness of the application?

James
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James Vanderhyde
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Computer Science
Saint Xavier University
3700 W. 103rd St.
Chicago, IL 60655
773-298-3454

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