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PAD software working terribly slow and Hangs at times

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Dear Admins,

Please consider this feedback regarding Power Automate Desktop being terribly slow while creating the flows. It hangs many times, throws the error strings, and working with different panes (variable, activities, sub flows selections) is very troublesome because you will have to wait for few seconds till the other sub flow window opens after clicking on their tabs.

 

Also, this is peculiar because such behavior doesn't happen when you just start your computer and work with software. after some time, the slowness comes in effect. As a remedy you must restart the computer. And please note I don't have under capacity system, it has i7 processor and 32 gigs of RAM. 

 

However, also note that when I run the flow it is absolutely fine. I mean even though having written some heavy code it works perfactly ok. I have no problem in doing debuging of the code as well. It is just a problem in the flow development environment.

 

 

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  • ChristianAbata Profile Picture
    8,953 Most Valuable Professional on at

    hi @Rkmatieda  could you try downloading the last version? its has a better performance. I'm working now with 8Gb RAM and i5 pc

  • Rkmatieda Profile Picture
    77 on at

    Hi @ChristianAbata ,

    I did it. but only marginal increase in response. 

    The problem is that when you start the software, it works properly but after certain time it starts lagging in response. but the good part is that ever after such slow response it doesn't hang and stop responding.

  • csundar Profile Picture
    87 on at

    @Rkmatieda  I have found that closing my flows and the desktop application and restarting it helps with this issue.  Also if I have many browser windows open it seems to add delay.  I suspect it is related to the connections between PAD and the browser plugins.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    @Rkmatieda , I agree. 

    As flow gets bigger, PAD gets slower.

    Tip: For faster run, try running it from the flows window

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  • yoko2020 Profile Picture
    495 on at

    Tried with PAD latest version, and the issue still there.

    It still need improvement. Winautomation and ProcessRobot engine more responsive and faster.

    Our time will be wasted if we build a complex process which contain many function.

     

    ps : i am using high end laptop

    AMD Ryzen™ 9 4900H Processor 3.3 GHz (8M Cache, up to 4.4 GHz)

    NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060 with ROG Boost

    - 16 GB DDR4 3200Mhz

     

  • ChristianAbata Profile Picture
    8,953 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @yoko2020 sure a kind of improve could come in the future.

  • miketran13 Profile Picture
    720 on at

    I totally agreed, It is so slow. I could not believe a public version could slow like that. 

    If my flow is simple, then it is ok. But if my flow is getting complicated with more actions and sub flows. Then it is terribly slow, and I have to wait for 5-10 seconds for any actions on PAD. The PAD process takes all the CPU.

    I hope the team can fix it ASAP.

    Regards,

    Mike

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  • emilyh Profile Picture
    26 on at

    I have the same issue. When adding more and more actions to the flow, then it becomes super slow, adding every action or just scroll up and down takes seconds to complete. Wasting too much time for just waiting. The issue should be taken care of asap.

    Please!!! 

  • Shane147 Profile Picture
    23 on at

    I hate to add to the chain of complain, but anyone comparing the speed of the PAD editor vs. WinAutomation editor will be very disappointed at the moment.   I do hope MS manage to sort this out.   I thought it maybe just my setup, but it's borderline unusable if you are building complex flows. 

  • yoko2020 Profile Picture
    495 on at

    Agree, It is not individual issue. Everybody experiencing this slowness in their machine.

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