Some tweaks to make OD faster

hello all,

im using OD for a while now and it always drove me crazy that after a certain amount of time OD reacted very slowly.

yesterday i found a tweak to make OD very responsive: you have to set the magnification size to 128.

since 128 is a value that is stored in the pngs it seems that OD can handle this much better than values like 43, 69, 93, etc... OD seems having problems with resizing of icons.

you can also try to set the performance option to "fast, may be jumpy". this may improve the quality of the magnification that way, that it behaves pretty much like yzdock.

good luck !

Stevie

#252791

cool tip. so then i have to resize every freaking png into 100 or the size i'm using for my dock just to make it smooth then. huh? thanks.

#252797

hehe well i guess thats it.

i just stick to 128

greets stevie

#252839

do you think that relative fractions of that size would also improve performance? 64, 96, 32, etc?

#252861

this may improve the quality of the magnification that way, that it behaves pretty much like yzdock.

Not to start a conversation about this, but just watch the loaded language. For many (dare I say most?) people Object Dock outperforms Y' z Dock with respect to speed and functionality. That's my opinion, but both of our opinions are irrelevant.

#252866

dude, your right, that tottaly made it faster, i went from the jumpy and no translation setting to smooth and quick, and it runs perfectly. at least for me .

thanks.

#252869

hi grim53 !

glad it worked for you, since i wasnt sure if this behaviour is only showing on my machine.

greets stevie

#252877

hi steelfist !

i think that yes. because i also use some 256 x 256 pngs, so 64, 96, 32 should work also.

for the non-magnified state i chose 32 btw...

@pst9er

hmm well, my experience is that yzdock is much faster and smooter concerning the speed of magnification.

and as far as i read in the RKdock thread, many other ppl are experiencing the same.

but anyway, at the end its all machine-dependent.

greets stevie

#252880

I have a question...

Every dock program runs like crap on my machine. However, when I have iTunes loaded into memory the docks run smoothly and the CPU usage of the dock actually goes down.

When I close iTunes, I get poor performance again.

Any thoughts?

#253537

Improved performance greatly....tip of the year so far!...many thanks!

#253600

also another performance tweek is to disable the magnification altogether!

#253723

Nice! but what exactly is OD

#253727

Nice! but what exactly is OD

no comment on this one :slant:

#253755

no comment on this one :slant:

LMAO....

As for the time, thanks... ive actually been using it like this for a really long time, I guess it only seemed logical that it would be faster if it loaded to its original size instead of trying to blow the images up lol... guess I didnt realize how many other people didnt think of it haha... Thanks though.

#253766

Great tweak my OD is more responsive now

Thanks

#253767