Sluggish Performance on SL2

UPDATE - I updated my NVIDIA graphics driver and ensured I was on 96 DPI. I also went in and disabled all high-resource start up processes, including cloud drives and resources. Then I rebooted the computer.

I am not experiencing the lag now.

I am going to keep on noting my discoveries here in the hope that it can help others ...

I am encountering the 3-second lag again on one slide but not on most others so far.  The one slide that I am having the lag on doesn't have large images files (only one rather small one).  But what is does have is a lot of objects that link to other scenes. The learner links outs to four other scenes and then is directed back. A variable is used to keep them from advancing until all the object/links have been visited.  When I click on one of the objects that is a link in the timeline, it takes about 3 seconds to show marked (I am adjusting the objects on the timeline to time their appearance).  In fact, just clicking on the slide to open it from the Scene view, it takes the slide about 8 seconds to load and appear (unlike the other slides without all the links).

Could it be that somehow all the links slow the selection of slide and the objects on it?

Hi Bruce! Thanks for directing me here from your previous post. To clarify, are you seeing this sluggish behavior in preview mode, or after the project has been published? If you are seeing this in the published project, are you testing it in the intended environment, as well?

The output isn't sluggish at all. It's when editing the slide within the program itself. (Just the one with all the links).  Now that I have that one done, the rest are doing fine. But if I click on that one slide to open it, it takes about 10 seconds to open and then there is a 3 second delay on any object I select to edit.

Fortunately, I only have that one slide to contend with. :)

Good to hear it's only one slide. I've experienced slides behaving that way because of large images, but not because it has multiple links to other slides. Maybe other folks in the community can share if they've experienced something similar. 

As always, if you get to the point that you'd like to have our support engineers to take a look, you can certainly share your file with them here. 

I am having the exact same problem.  I am trying to build a basic "Pick Many" quiz slide with three photos.  I click on a photo and it takes several seconds to show that it is selected. I try to crop the photo and it takes several seconds then moves the photo wildly.  Same thing with resizing. If I click on the correct and incorrect layers, it takes several seconds for them to show up or change.  I tried restarting the computer, importing the slides into a new program, nothing is working.     Alyssa, based on your comment I am fairly certain it is the graphics because it works fine with one photo, when I add the second, it starts to lag, and when I add the third...forget about it!  I tried compressing my photos (they were just taken with my phone which is old, so they aren't huge to begin with.)  Any other suggestions?

I was having the same problem when I used images on a slide Kristi ... but do you know what fixed it for me?  I eliminated the styles!  When  I inserted an image and then used the image editor to add one of the Storyline style "picture frames", whenever I worked on that slide I had a lag.  When I went in and selected "no style" on the far left for that image ... the lag went away!

Try it!

Bruce you get the "genius" award for the day!  That was EXACTLY what the issue was!  I went in and selected "no style" and now it works perfectly.  Thank you!

WOOHOO!  I helped somebody! 

@Alyssa - Get that piece of information to your tech folks!  That sounds like a code glitch to me!

Yay!! Glad you were able to figure out a solution! 

Kristi and Bruce, would you mind sharing your file with our support engineers here so that we can take a look and try to reproduce the sluggish behavior on our end?

File submitted. :)

Great, thanks so much for sending it over! One of our team members will be reaching out shortly, and I'll be sure to follow along with that case, as well.

I know this is an old thread, but Bruce, you just saved my sanity. Thank you!!!