Slow builds on Windows 10

[swmotif]

Hello,

Today I upgraded my development machine from Windows 7 32 bit to Windows 10 32 bit.

Prior to the upgrade, InstallAware 18 build 12.3.13 performed a build in 1 minute 18 seconds in Windows 7. In Windows 10, it takes 14 minutes 8 seconds.

The computer hardware is high performance (note the 1 minute 18 second build in Windows 7 ... that's doing a LOT). I don't understand how the build could be taking 14 times longer. The files during build copy very slow from one to the next, and the CPU idles at 1% and disk at 0% and nothing is busy.

On Windows 7, it would use all 8 cores for compression up to 100% CPU throughput and the disk is SSD and can take it as fast as InstallAware wants to write it. My compressed build is arounds 320 megabytes.

Could this just be me or is there a compatibility issue with InstallAware in Windows 10 where I need to revert backwards to Windows 7?

Sincerely,

James

[swmotif]

Hello,

In my case, it was copying assemblies and that was what was slow into the build process.

If I right-click InstallAware "Run As Administrator", it runs fast again!

As for Windows 10 and previously Windows 7, I'm using Hyper-V and this is a virtual machine. The 1 minute 15 seconds it took before is now 48 seconds and 50 seconds on two tests.

Sincerely,

James

[FrancescoT]

Dear James,

anyway it's very strange that "Run As Administrator" does the trick.

Of course, InstallAware 18 doesn't support WIN 10 "officially", but for what I know, the product should work correctly even on WIN 10.

Regards

[rev23dev]

I have the same issue in X3. Builds are just really slow in Windows 10.

[FrancescoT]

Dear rev23dev,

honestly my development machine is a WIN X64 10 system... and I never experienced what you are reporting.

I don't know, maybe your issue is caused by the system resources available but for sure, this has nothing to do with a possible compatibility issue of IA X3 with WIN 10.

Regards