9.0.1-rc1 freezing every now and then, but not with any specific operation

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i have tried on two different computers (both running windows 10) and i get intermittent freezes. my own computer recovers from the freezes within a few seconds but freezes very often; once for every connection that i trace that i try to route. my work computer froze only twice in two hours, but each time it did not recover

i’m wondering if anyone else is having problems with this so i can decide if i should dig deeper

Application: KiCad x64 on x64

Version: 9.0.1-rc1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 10.2.0
FontConfig 2.15.0

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
OpenGL: NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2, 4.6.0 NVIDIA 560.94

wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.86.0
OCC: 7.8.1
Curl: 8.11.1-DEV
ngspice: 44
Compiler: Visual C++ 1942 without C++ ABI
KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale:
Lang: en_NL
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1.234,5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

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I cannot answer your question, but I suspect that you may be running Win10 because your computers are too old to run Win11, and whether THAT may be the reason your computers are freezing?

I am curious because I am pondering upgrading from 8.08. My office laptop runs Win 11 but my lab laptop runs Win10. Microsoft says it is not able to run Win11.

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my computers are not that old, i just haven’t felt the need to update to windows 11. for context, my computer has a 5800x3d, my work computer has a 7940hs. if windows 10 is the source of my issues i may end up upgrading

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Does it work better if you start eeschema in standalone mode, i.e. not from the kicad app? What if you just pan in circles, do you see this freezing periodically?

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the standalone pcb editor seems to not exhibit the freezing behaviour

panning does not make it freeze; it happens when i perform an action such as moving/rotating or routing a track. it freezes when i perform such an action and then if i spam a bunch of keys it rapidly executes whatever i tried to do while it was frozen. i can make a screen recording if that helps

i did start this design in 8.0 and i have not updated my netlist for 9.0; could that be a reason?

… actually i just tested that, doesn’t make a difference

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Maybe it i Whole program stuttering on Git tracked project with large commit history (?) (#20078) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

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i removed the git folder like the other guys suggested in the comments but that didn’t remove the freezing. i got it to freeze within 20 seconds of trying

i then restored the .git folder and removed tracking from within the kicad app by right clicking the project and going through the menus, and that did seem to stop the freezing. i’m hoping that means this is fixed for the impending 9.0.1 release

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For me it apperas fixed in the latest nightly of the 9.0 branch.