StephenM wrote:Hello Mark,
You write ....Loading times are faster with HW 8, with my slowest load at 90 seconds.
Wow! This seems very fast to me.
Could you give a little more detail. I note you have Billerbeck.
How long does Billerbeck take to load in HW8?
How long did it take in HW7?
Stephen
I'm away from home for a couple weeks, but from memory: Caen 2.67 Surround loads in 30 seconds, was about 1 minute on HW7. Nancy is now about 1 minute, was 2 minutes. Billerbeck is around 90 seconds, was 3 minutes. My cache directory is on an internal SSD. All samples, 24 bits, full releases.
Overall, my load times are approximately halved by HW8. That does depend on whether it's the first organ loaded after starting HW. It's somewhat faster to load subsequent organs since HW is able to retain memory allocated for the previous organ.
I'm on Windows 11, and freeing memory was very slow. Unloading an organ before HW8 could take over a minute, now it's a few seconds.