Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Performance?

I emailed ReSharper support and they were helpful enough to point out that there is a known issue with the Productivity Power tools add-on not playing nice with ReSharper. They asked me to disable the Productivity Power Tools and see if performance returned to normal.

I emailed ReSharper support and they were helpful enough to point out that there is a known issue with the Productivity Power tools add-on not playing nice with ReSharper. They asked me to disable the Productivity Power Tools and see if performance returned to normal. I disabled the Productivity Power Tools and my Visual Studio with SP1 seems to behave normally again.

This is an acceptable solution for me since the only part of the tools I used was the Document Tab Well, the rest seem pretty worthless to me. JetBrains is a really good company so I'm sure they will work on resolving the issue, or at least work with MS to determine which the problem is caused by. Though my own hunch has me thinking the Productivity Power Tools are the culprit and not ReSharper.

Kind of ironic that the "Productivity" Power Tools were making me much less productive.

1 Interestingly I experienced the same problem, but with coderush not resharper. Originally uninstalled SP1 after similar problems to those you've experienced, then reinstalled it this week and still had the same problems. After reading this I disabled the power tools and the difference is amazing.

Going to miss the document tab well though :-( – Kevin O'Donovan Oct 4 '11 at 15:52 Thanks. I had the same problem and was blaming JustCode. Visual Studio was sometimes freezing as often as every 5 mins.

Getting rid of the "productivity" tools did the trick. Solution Navigator definitely isn't worth the trade-offs. – FerretallicA Dec 19 '11 at 2:33.

Try to remove resharper, I had problems like yours when I had it.

– Adam Mar 17 '11 at 17:18 3 No, that is just a try to find out a problem root. I don't say don't use, I say remove it to check if problem is gone, and after this you can put it back, if you want – misha nesterenko Mar 17 '11 at 21:01.

I haven't noticed this problem, but Scott Guthrie's blog entry on SP1 indicated near the end that VS SP1 now uses software rendering rather than hardware rendering. This can cause perf issues for some. You may want to check this out.

You can access the setting in Tools | Options on the Environment/General dialog.

User664681 - This is how it works by default on XP, mine is already using Hardware acceleration. – Adam Mar 17 '11 at 17:19.

Installing sp1 has definitely made visual studio 2010 slower. Finding VS 2010 a bit dissapointing. Having said that, sp1 by default turns off hardware graphics acceleration in the tools options dialog.

If you turn that back on and turn off rich client visual experience then things get a bit faster (I think).

2 Hardware acceleration gets only disabled on Windows XP, when installing SP1 – Jehof Mar 25 '11 at 7:39.

If you have to kill & restart, then you most likely have a configuration problem of some sort, and the rest of my answer would be less relevant. :-) If it does eventually recover, then I'd wonder where the performance bottleneck is. Is your disk busy the whole time it's frozen?

Is CPU pegged at 100% (or perhaps a smaller number for multi-core environments)? Do you have enough RAM to support whatever programs are running without too much swapping to disk? Built-in Windows tools like Task Manager and Performance Monitor, or SysInternals tools like DiskMon and Process Monitor, can help you narrow it down.

Personally I've found disk to be the most frequent bottleneck for VS, Outlook, Eclipse, and many other resource-intensive programs. If you discover that disk is the problem, I'd strongly suggest upgrading to a solid-state drive -- if you haven't already done so and have the option to do so. That might sound drastic, and in a sense it's just "throwing hardware at the problem," but it's the single most significant performance boost I've experienced on a laptop or workstation in a LONG time.

For what it's worth, I haven't found a significant difference in performance between VS2010 and VS2010 SP1, and I'm running XP 32-bit on a ~2-year-old laptop with a solid-state drive. I'm not aware of any SP1 changes that would make VS substantially more disk-intensive.

It does recover, haven't had to kill VS yet. I agree I feel its the hard drive mostly, I'm just surprised SP1 has an issue with the same hard drive over the non-SP1 version. – Mark Mar 30 '11 at 12:12 I'm surprised as well.

Could there have also been growth in your project around the same time? FWIW, I was even more surprised by the magnitude of change the upgrade to SSD gave me. For example: installing VS2010 (pre-SP1) used to be a multi-hour process; SSD brought it down to ~30 minutes.

Going from powered off to productively developing used to take 5-15 minutes; SSD brought it down under a minute. If you have the ability to take an image of your HD and restore it onto a SSD, you can have incredible performance gains after investing only a couple hours and a couple hundred dollars. – Paul Karlin Mar 30 '11 at 14:22.

The only extension I have in VS 2010 is Resharper. CPU is Intel Core2 Quad 6600, 4Gb RAM. After installing SP1 I've noticed memory leakage, CPU time for devenv is 25% on standby, scrolling, changing the position of cursor and switching tabs take several seconds.

See blog post here.

For me, the SP1 setup was stuck for several hours so I searched the Internet and found lots of people complaining about SP1 being slow (once they manage to install it! ) so I cancelled the upgrade. The rollback also remained stuck.

After many hours, I had to shut down the computer. Then, Windows Update tried to update . NET 4 and the update was frozen.

Even when shutting down won't resolve this as Windows needs to finish installing updates before shutting down, so the only way to unfreeze it was to do a physical reboot. Now my Visual Studio 2010 installation is broken, I'm currently re-installing it... Considering my experience and everything I read about it, I would advise to stay away from this service pack. Microsoft used to have a bad reputation for reliability (Win95-WinME era) but has been doing great in the last years.

They seem to have came back again to their unreliable releases problems. Lots of people criticize Bill Gates, but I have to say... software quality isn't the same since he left. He truly was a genius.

Edit: repairing Visual Studio reported several errors and 3 unimportant components failed to install. However, Visual Studio wouldn't open because SP1 was only partially installed. I went to the control panel and uninstalled the partial SP1.

Visual Studio still doesn't open, so I need to repair the installation a second time. Lots of hassles for a service pack...

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