Why is Visual Studio 2013 very slow?

Question

I'm running Visual Studio 2013 Pro (RTM version) on my formatted PC (Windows 8.1 fresh install).

I don't know why, but Visual Studio 2013 Pro is very very slow! Slow for building, debugging, navigating in the IDE... my hard disk drive LED is not lighting up at all!

I'm on a little MFC (C++) project using the Boost library.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It is something concerned with the graphics drivers. If you update them you will be fine.

Or you can disable the hardware graphics acceleration in Visual Studio according to these steps:

1. In Visual Studio, click "Tools", and then click "Options".

2. In the Options dialog box, navigate to the "Environment > General" section and clear the "Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance" check box. (Refer to the following screen shot for this step.)

3. Clear the "Use hardware graphics acceleration if available" check box to prevent the use of hardware graphics acceleration.

4. Select or clear the "Enable rich client visual experience" check box to make sure that rich visuals are always on or off, respectively. When this check box is selected, rich visuals are used independent of the computer environment. For example, rich visuals are used when you run Visual Studio locally on a rich client and over remote desktop.

References:

• You experience performance issues, product crashes, or rendering issues in Visual Studio 2013