Helmfried

Hello,

I know this thread is old but I am sure, this is still a problem for many users, so I decided two share my experience.

I have been using eSword for several years now but not very often I have to say. But recently went back to it and I discovered this wonderful website and started adding a few modules to eSword last night. After that I, of course, clicked around a bit to check the new modules out.

ESword was always operating pretty smooth, in a veeery "ok" speed. But then, 'suddenly', it started lagging heavily, in a way, many of you described. I don't have that many modules installed and I really wondered, that just by adding a few more, it could slow everything so much down. I recognized the problem, when switching between different dictionarys. I started to feel a bit sad and disappointed   because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to use eSword with all this great, new stuff w/o problems. But actually, I could not really imagine, that a few more modules, would slow everything down so bad. Also, deactivating the new modules, wouldn't give back the performance I was used to, it changed nothing.

Fortunately, I searched and found this thread today and figured out, that Josh's advice, immediately solve the whole problem for me! While clicking around before, I think I activated this option, which I never used before and luckily, it's highly unlikely, that I will ever really use it

You can also try clicking the open book icon next to it to remove the Dictionary topic list.

 

Try it out folks! For me, everything is back to speed and I am really glad that I can keep and use the new modules without any lack of performance.

Finally I have to say, that all this talking about upgrading your computers' RAM, processor etc. sounds, indeed, a bit extreme to me and I think it's not very likely that this kind of problem is caused by such issues. Even with many modules installed, eSword is still a pretty 'slim' software. And unless your PC is, I don't know, 10+ years old?, you should be able to use eSword without problems. I think the most of us use different software, that is waaay more hungry for your computers' ressources, and they also work fine.

I hope everyone finds a proper and easy solution, like I did, before buying a new PC 

Many thanks Josh and kind regards everybody!

Helmfried