Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Performance

Question

I've noticed since installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 that I'm having huge performance issues. It will randomly freeze up on me quite a bit.

I had no performance issues with Visual Studio 2010 before the upgrade. The only add-on I have running is ReSharper.

I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing performance issues? If so have you found a way to fix them?

Answer 1

I emailed ReSharper support and they were helpful enough to point out that there is a known issue with the Productivity Power tools add-on not playing nice with ReSharper. They asked me to disable the Productivity Power Tools and see if performance returned to normal.

I disabled the Productivity Power Tools and my Visual Studio with SP1 seems to behave normally again. This is an acceptable solution for me since the only part of the tools I used was the Document Tab Well, the rest seem pretty worthless to me. JetBrains is a really good company so I'm sure they will work on resolving the issue, or at least work with MS to determine which the problem is caused by.

Though my own hunch has me thinking the Productivity Power Tools are the culprit and not ReSharper.

Kind of ironic that the "Productivity" Power Tools were making me much less productive.

Answer 2

I haven't noticed this problem, but Scott Guthrie's blog entry on SP1 indicated near the end that VS SP1 now uses software rendering rather than hardware rendering. This can cause perf issues for some. You may want to check this out. You can access the setting in Tools | Options on the Environment/General dialog.