Poor performance in 1.2 despite good hardware
Summary:
Inkscape 1.2 runs, in general, considerably slower than previous versions on exactly the same hardware. Panning around an empty file, drawing shapes, feels much laggier than 1.1, for instance.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open Inkscape, on any file (even an empty file)
- Drag the view, or draw any shape
What happened?
Slow performance; the feeling is that of a much lower FPS than in previous versions when doing the exact same thing.
What should have happened?
The same (or hopefully better) performance than in previous versions of Inkscape.
Sample attachments:
The following videos attempt to showcase the issue, doing pretty much the same things in clean installs of 1.1 and 1.2 on default settings. The videos aren't 100% close to reality as they may have some compression and unreliable FPS, but looking at them both side by side, it's clear that the motion in 1.1 was considerably smoother.
Inkscape 1.1:
Inkscape 1.2:
Version info
Inkscape 1.2 (dc2aedaf03, 2022-05-15)
System Specs
OS: Windows 10 21H2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
RAM: 16 GB