Windows 10 vs Windows 7 debugging

[Yaron 53]

I recently upgrade my main development machine from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

 

The major thing I noticed is that executing my app under the debugger is slower and file access (on an SSD drive) also seems impacted even though benchmarks show that read/write/io speeds are identical to Windows 7.

 

Is this something anyone else encountered and possibly found a solution?

[Der schöne Günther 316]

Possibly related?

 

http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2017-june-delphi-packages-creators-update.html

[Yaron 53]

I don't think so, my versions of Delphi & Windows already include the fixes for that issue.

 

I'm starting to think it may be the real-time protection that I had disabled in Win7 and is more difficult to disable in Win10.

[A.M. Hoornweg 144]

Is your development machine a VM? Does it have the VMWare tools installed?

 

I find that it makes a *vast* speed difference in a VM when I disable unneccessary graphical goodies in Windows 10.

 

Go to control panel -> System-> Advanced system settings -> Tab "Advanced" -> Button "Performance Settings" -> Tab "Visual Effects" 

and click radiobutton "Adjust for best performance".

 

Then re-enable only essential stuff like "smooth edges of screen fonts" and "show windows while dragging".

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by A.M. Hoornweg

[Der schöne Günther 316]

That sounds like your VM lacks proper drivers for hardware accleration.

[Yaron 53]

I'm not using a VM.