Slow Intellisense -> Solution?

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I’ve had sluggish Visual Basic intellisense up until lecture 80. It often took 30 seconds to work if at all. I tried two adjustments from a google search and it seems to be working much better. Any unintended consequences?

1.Turn to True Tools/Options/TextEditor/C++/Intellisense/DisableAutoUpdating

  1. Turn to False Tools/Options/TextEditor/C++/Intellisense/AutoTune Max Cached Translation Units

then, Set Max Cached Translation Units to 15. This may dedicate +1Gb of Ram to Intellisense? The suggested value was 10, but who wants a half measure.

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Hey Eric,

I haven’t tried that myself but I wanted to throw out the solution that worked for me. It seemed like my Windows Defender was slowing mine down. Essentially you have to add Intellisense (devenv.exe or WDExpress.exe) to the Excluded Processes which is pretty easy to do and might save you from unintended consequences of giving it more RAM. I’ve copied in the steps below.

Best,

The below is from the bottom of this post: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/434247/speeding-up-intellisense-on-vs2015.html

To solve the problem you can add an Exception processes to Security Essentials, which makes MSE not to monitor behavior of those processes.

To add exception process, go to:

Windows Defenders Settings -> Excluded processes -> Browse -> Find the devenv.exe or WDExpress.exe from your computer -> Press Add button -> Press Save Changes

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Thanks, I added the exceptions to my antivirus. The intellisense was still erratic. So I -reenabled Auto-Updating and it seems to be doing even better. Ctrl+J/ Ctrl+K/ Ctrl+I & Ctrl+Shift+Space seem to sometimes force invoke the intellisense if it stalls out. I am hoping it will stay fast as I am making changes.