Rhino 7 gets stuck loading the IronPython plug-in

Rhino Rhino for Windows
#1

I’ve been noticing some performance issues with Rhino 7 on the last few jobs I worked on. The model starts out fine but as time goes on there develops a small pause after some operations (trimming is an example). I’m running the latest RC.

It’s not file size dependant, as it happens even with very small files. The longer I work on it, the more pronounced the pause becomes. Closing Rhino and re-opening doesn’t solve it. The only way to get rid of those annoying hesitations is to restart the computer. But then it slowly comes back.

But now I have a bigger problem. I can’t get Rhino 7 to open as it gets stuck loading the IronPython plug-in.

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It’s been hanging here for about 20 minutes. Rebooting doesn’t solve this. The only way back into Rhino 7 is in safe mode.

Tomorrow I will disable the only plug-in I have loading and see if that helps. In the meantime, I just want to find out from other users if they experience a hesitation after certain commands. I haven’t purchased the licenses for everyone else yet, so I can’t test this myself to try to determine if it’s a Rhino issue or my computer.

Thanks,

Dan

#2

I fixed this. I’ll leave this post here in case it may be beneficial for others.

Although my graphics driver was only a couple of months old, it was too old for the latest RC I guess. I updated the driver and this issue went away. I not only can now open Rhino 7, the annoying hesitation seems to be gone too.

Thanks,

Dan

#3

Wow, Dan - who’da thunk it?

Any chance you could post the specifics on Rhino version, video card and driver versions that didn’t work and did work?

#4

I’m running the latest RC (7.2.20343). I have an Nvidia quadro K5000 and the driver that I was running was 452.57 which I updated to about a month ago. It was fine until a couple of days ago when the performance of Rhino 7 started to take a dump. By yesterday afternoon I couldn’t even open Rhino 7. I left it all night, and this morning it was still locked up trying to load the IronPython plug-in. I re-ran the installer and used the repair option, but that didn’t help at all. So just on a whim I decided to see if there was a new driver, and there was. So I downloaded and installed 460.89 and the problem was instantly fixed. Rhino 7 opened without issue immediately after the update. I’ve been working with it all day and there is no hesitation anymore.
I wonder if it’s possible for a driver to corrupt? That sure seems to be what happened.

#5

@stevebaer - fyi, just in case this is of interest or you have an idea what might have happened…

-Pascal

#6

I’m surprised the python plug-in is even loading at start. There must be another plug-in involved that is loading python.

#7

Yes, I have my plug-in (which are compiled python scripts) loading at startup.

#8

For me it’s not the issue of slowing down. It’s completely stuck on “loading ironpython…” from time to time.
Reopening Rhino usually fixes it.
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One of these that may be acting up?

#9

I have not had this happen again since updating to the very latest graphics driver.