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Roon: anyone else experience slowdowns after usage?

Since Roon is apparently editing user problems out of posts on their forum, I thought I'd try here.  

In essence, Roon seems to slow down and become unreliable - songs take 30 seconds to transition, pages slow to load, occasionally won't display tags, and very often requires resetting of image cache to show artist photos and album covers.  

This goes away when you restart the software.  Roon asserts its a network configuration issue.  But I have the same issue on two different networks (different gear) in two different houses, and others have mentioned the problem.

Anyone else have that issue?  Anyone able to solve it locally on a permanent basis (i.e. not the restart method)?
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yyzsantabarbara
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You should describe your ROON setup in detail. Is is a headless setup. Is it on a computer? MAC, PC, appliance?

I had some performance issues with ROON and my PC when I had the client and server on the same machine. The cause was traced to my NVIDIA computer graphics driver. So if you describe your setup diagnostics can be attempted.
yyzsantabarbara
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Yesterday, I got my repaired MacMini with Catalina back (new OS and hard drive). I am going to installing ROON Core on it and run it like you are. Mainly because someone I am helping with ROON is using a MacBook Pro. I wanted to see what issues arise for him.

I will post my observations here.
yyzsantabarbara
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@jji666  Do you have NVidia video drivers? If so, Windows OS updates may put the default Windows drivers instead of the third party NVidia drivers. When I ran the app and core on the same Windows 10 machine I had performance issues after a Windows OS update. I noticed that when I minimized the ROON app performance improved dramatically (looking at Performance Manager). So I figured out that it was a video driver issue and ROON a developer confirmed the NVidia driver issue.

Due to this video issue on OS updates I separated the full app to a CORE and APP on 2 machines. The separation is actually a rather difficult process and you need to follow the steps properly so as not to mess up you ROON setup.

My ROON server is not that powerful and also electrically noisy (ROON  says that is fine). I am a super user of ROON with 3 zones streaming at the same time with 2 of the zones using CONVOLUTION filters. My weakish CORE server has no problems. 

I also use fibre optic cables to kill the noise on my network before it goes into my DACs.
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