Keen wrote:

Never happened to me and I use GP 5.0 regularly. I do sometimes get error messages when scrolling or clicking on a specific section of a tab, but that's due to invalid notation. If I were you I'd troubleshoot it by gradually deleting small parts of the tab near the point you suspect the freeze occurs and seeing if it still does.

Maybe it is only x64 that makes it do this because every tab does it.

Last edited by Serosis (September 6, 2009 4:56 pm)

Serosis wrote:

I just want to know if this happens to anybody else...

Just going along with the flow tabbing my music and I decide to scroll up to check something and then, freeze. After the freeze I check task manager and it is taking up a good 98% chunk of the CPU.

Here is a screenshot for documentation:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/59/gpfreeze.th.jpg

This freeze is reproducible just by opening up any tab and then start scrolling down and up. Sometimes it's immediate and sometimes it takes a few scrolls.

This little bug was introduced with 5.0 and has stayed since.

Don't need help or anything, just giving information just in case it has been bugging anybody.

A very curious problem indeed!  The only thing I can think of is that your graphics card drivers, and/or your system's display settings, are causing the problem.  It's a long shot, but try the following:

Right-click on the shortcut or the main EXE of Guitar Pro and select Properties, then click the Compatibility tab.  From here, click "Run in 256 colours" and then "OK".  Try scrolling in GP now and see if it has worked.  If it has, it could indicate that you need to reinstall/update your graphics card drivers.  If it hasn't, repeat the steps outlined above and remove the 256 colour option from the compatibility tab.

An even longer shot could be your mouse drivers, assuming you are either using your mouse's left-button or the scroll wheel to scroll the page in GP (have you tried scrolling with the cursor keys?).  I had a wireless optical mouse while using Vista x64 and certain programs wouldn't scroll properly, but it worked fine with the same programs on an x86 O/S.  If your mouse is a USB or PS/2 one ignore this, otherwise try updating the drivers/software for it.

Good luck!

Last edited by Paddy (September 7, 2009 10:06 am)

Haha well, it was a long-shot!  At least we've ruled out the possibility that it's a driver issue.  Unfortunately I'm all out of ideas

It looks like GP5 and your mouse don't get on very well...
Did you check whether you get the same issue with another mouse (not a wireless one, that is)?
Also, HP devices often come with a specific driver; it may be worth checking.

I can scroll without any problems on Vista Ultimate SP2 x64, so I don't think that's the issue.  I just tried scrolling in every view, and then in every view again with the multitrack option pressed, and there was no freezing.  I tried this both when the tab was stopped and whilst it was playing, and also with the RSE turned on and off.

How much RAM does your system have?  And what sort of processor?  If you're using a mouse with a ball in it it's probably quite an old system.  Here are the minimum requirements:

http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php? … ifications

If your system doesn't satisfy (or only slightly exceeds) these requirements it might explain the problem.  That's the only other thing I can think of.  I do know that back when GP5 first came out my system at the time wasn't up to much, and I seem to recall having issues with the screen sticking and jerking a little bit.  It was so long ago (nearly 4 years!!) that I can't remember it clearly, but I don't think there was any prolonged freezing.  Now my system is quite beefy, and I never have any issues (other than the errors we all get from time to time!).

Serosis wrote:

My system put quite plainly at the time:

AMD Athlon x64 3400+ 2.19 GHz
4 Gigs of ram
3 300 gig SATA HDs
Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT 512 Mb

Haha well, I think we can rule out low system specs!!

Serosis wrote:

Last time I used a mouse with a ball in it was over 5 years ago

Ahh, I thought you said you were using one now.  My mistake.

Serosis wrote:

I have near the same setup now running XP 32bit only with 2 hd's and made my 3rd one external for travel purposes/xbox 360 movie viewing

So the only real big change here is now I'm running 32bit until I gather up some cash to buy windows 7 and dualboot.

This probably doesn't matter now that you've tried different systems/operating systems since your original post, but did you ever get around to updating your graphics card drivers to see if that helps?