Mouse freezes when WB reads prefs drawer

[Leandro Jardim]

When I open the prefs drawer, or any other with many icons in it, the mouse pointer feels sluggish and sometimes even appears to freeze, and only changes back to normal when Workbench finishes reading the drawer.

The issue gets severe with the high color picture.datatype or with MCP. It gets worse with any resident program I load into AmigaOS memory. The picture.datatype I did mention before, slowdown AmigaOS when a program uses it to read a picture.

This bug started with WinUAE 2.6.0.

[EDIT: and happens only if the CPU speed is at 28+ MHz (CE), with 24 bit mode enabled or not.]

[EDIT2: I use AmigaOS 3.9, VisualPrefs, icon.library 46.4.336, tested with HiRes Laced and Productivity, happens less frequently with "CPU Fastest possible". Warning: disable VSync because it hides the bug.]

[Toni Wilen]

Check if lowering active priority changes anything (try "below normal" first)

EDIT: and you need to narrow down the problem to specific 2.6.0 beta. (if it is actually a bug, I suspect it is just side-effect due to some CPU usage change)

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Check if lowering active priority changes anything (try "below normal" first)

EDIT: and you need to narrow down the problem to specific 2.6.0 beta. (if it is actually a bug, I suspect it is just side-effect due to some CPU usage change)

It doesnt helps to lower WinUAE active priority.

But activating Executive under OS 3.9 seems to fix the problem. So it can be a priority problem on the AmigaOS side.

Toni, could WinUAE be changing Workbench task priority in real time, in some way like NovaCoder described when his Wolfenstein 3D ports stopped to work, but happening with icons instead of with the system time? WinUAE is a lot of hard work and you is being busy lately, with AROS, RTG, ECS/AGA etc...

2.6.0 beta? I am uncertain what to do because I only found 2.6.1 beta posts, I could not find that exact beta on EAB.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Leandro Jardim

2.6.0 beta? I am uncertain what to do because I only found 2.6.1 beta posts, I could not find that exact beta on EAB.

It should not difficult to guess paths to 2.6.0 betas

same url as always/winuae_2600b1.zip to b21.

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

It should not difficult to guess paths to 2.6.0 betas

same url as always/winuae_2600b1.zip to b21.

Its [elementary], my dear Watson, the culprit is at http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_2600b6.zip

[Toni Wilen]

Only obvious change in that version is D3D mode shader stuff improvements, so question becomes: does slowdown happen in DirectDraw mode?

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Only obvious change in that version is D3D mode shader stuff improvements, so question becomes: does slowdown happen in DirectDraw mode?

Directdraw too, but read...

WinUAE and screen refresh is very fast, the slowdown is the mouse cursor that freezes for one second, when Workbench reads any drawer full of icons in it. That happens sometimes, others no. And sometimes that happens more than one time while it reads the full drawer.

That happens both with icon.library from OS 3.9 and that from PeterK, too. But I remember the first time that did happen was when I did install PeterK's library and did convert my icons, either with condenseicons and even with the WB Info command (RAWBInfo) with the library.

So I am in doubt, if that is a bug of WinUAE or icon.library, but anyways it not happen with the beta 5 [WinUAE] and earlier.

[Leandro Jardim]

This is a LHA archive without any programs, its only full of icons on it. Try to read its drawers using Workbench and the configuration below, to see if you have the same issue.

[Anemos]

I have similar problem to my fresh instalation 3.9 OS and 3.9 classic WB.
Some times on clicking right mouse button in to the WB option bar or in to the Dopus config.. pointer and system freeze.
Thats on Winuae also on the real Amiga (A1200) !

[Toni Wilen]

Which is the exact reason I still don't think it has anything to do with emulation. Mouse will stop (and everything else) if program keeps intuition lock too long, possibly also layer locks.

Probably some hack/patch conflict/semi-deadlock in some specific situations.

[Toni Wilen]

Easy test to see if Amiga-side stopped reading mouse:

Start emulation normally (in windowed mode), enter debugger (shift+f12), type "dj 1" (enable basic input logging), exit debugger "g".

Now every mouse movement that Windows sends will be logged. If log messages still appear normally while moving mouse, even when Amiga mouse is not moving, it is Amiga-side problem.

[Anemos]

Originally Posted by Anemos

I have similar problem to my fresh instalation 3.9 OS and 3.9 classic WB.
Some times on clicking right mouse button in to the WB option bar or in to the Dopus config.. pointer and system freeze.
Thats on Winuae also on the real Amiga (A1200) !

I found the problem.. is the magicmenu on startup!
I remove it,and all working fine but without the magicmenu..

[Leandro Jardim]

No, its not MagicMenu for me ...

Toni, I did what you did say, and I get the message "DS underflow", when the mouse stops moving, can it have anything with my issue?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Leandro Jardim

No, its not MagicMenu for me ...

Toni, I did what you did say, and I get the message "DS underflow", when the mouse stops moving, can it have anything with my issue?

You didn't answer if log messages stopped appearing during the freeze, while still moving your physical mouse. Thats the most important thing.

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

You didn't answer if log messages stopped appearing during the freeze, while still moving your physical mouse. Thats the most important thing.

Yes, all log messages stopped dring the freeze, but only when the DS something message appeared, but this message is not appearing now. Strange...

[Toni Wilen]

Does it still happen with 2.8.2b1?

[Leandro Jardim]

Thanks Toni, but it did not help.

The system is virus-free I think, but to erase any AmigaOS malware that is not found by Virus Checker and VirusZ, I did boot without startup-sequence, and did install all AmigaOS 3.9 and BoingBag 1 and 2 files over the old files and did remove all patches I did not use before from startup-sequence. The only thing remaining that is loaded on boot that is not any of these files is a border blanking utility, a drive click remover, the free version of VisualPrefs together with FullPalette, CopperDemon, and PFS3AIO in the RDB.