topic Re: Archicad 17 effect on DOPus software in Collaboration with other software

Archicad 17 effect on DOPus software

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:58:28 GMT

For many years I have used Directory Opus (http://www.gpsoft.com.au/) as my preferred file manager software. I am hoping someone in this forum might use it too.

After installing Archicad 17 I found that the performance of DOpus was very poor. Opening the program normally displays a folder tree in a flash, now it takes 5-10 seconds.

I installed Archicad 17 as a test on my laptop, and had the same problem. I then unistalled Archicad 17 and DOpus on the laptop performed as usual.

I should point out that the problem with DOpus occurs even when Archicad 17 is not running. I suspect something else that is installed (Java or Wibu) is doing something to interfere with folder reading of DOpus. I will notify GP Software of this issue as well, but would like to know if anyone has had a similar experience, and if anyone can suggest what is is that is causing this?

Note that A17 install has no effect on speed of Windows Explorer - it seems to be restricted to DOpus. Any suggestions would be welcome.

EDIT: Problem solved by the Directory Opus support! I have to use a utility (ShellExView) to disable Graphisoft Shell Extensions. After doing this the DOpus software works fine. I shall report this to Graphisoft.

Re: Archicad 17 effect on DOPus software

Marton Kiss — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:33:54 GMT

Graeme,

thanks for calling attention on this. I did a couple of quick tests, but so far I wasn't able to replicate the slowness with Directory Opus.

Our test process involves only the built in file managers on Windows and OS X and so far we haven't experienced any speed issues with our Shell Extension.

For now I can just agree with their support that disabling our Shell Extension is the quickest way to address the speed issue. I posted a report for our engineering to check this.

Marton

Re: Archicad 17 effect on DOPus software

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:55:54 GMT

Thanks Martin,

I did try this on three different Windows 7 computers with the same result. But for now disabling the shell extensions works fine, with no apparrent side effects.

Cheers,