DS recently started lagging

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lostmushroom
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DS recently started lagging

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Hi Tony. In the last couple of days, DS has started lagging quite badly for me. It's quite slow moving nodes, typing in any of the fields, panning around the conversation etc.
I'm wondering if there's something I've inadvertently done that's causing a sudden lag or if there's a way of resetting it.
Thanks!
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Tony Li
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Re: DS recently started lagging

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Hi,

Check the Console window for any editor-related messages.

In the Dialogue Editor's Database section, make sure Editor Settings > Fast Undo For Large Databases is ticked.

If you've opened multiple Inspector windows, try closing all but one.

If those don't help, and if you database is very large, you may need to split it up and use multiple databases.
lostmushroom
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Re: DS recently started lagging

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Fast Undo is ticked. There doesn't seem to be anything strange in the console window.

What counts as a very large database? Mine is 12.1mb.
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Re: DS recently started lagging

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"Large" is mostly the number of dialogue entries in the database because of the way Unity serializes asset files (including dialogue databases). If you create a new, test database in your project and it runs significantly faster in the Dialogue Editor, then you could probably see some benefit from using multiple, smaller databases instead of one large database.
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Re: DS recently started lagging

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Ah yeah that's it, a new test database runs really fast.

Thanks!
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