Fast image browser

I gave a try to Faststone, which is advertised as a fast image viewer,
but in reality is painfully slow. To make an example, on a Centrino
1.4GHz with 2GB RAM Faststone took over 11 seconds to open a 17MP image,
while Compupic took less than 2 seconds to open the same image.
Unfortunately Compupic doesn't distinguish between colour spaces and
assumes any image is sRGB.
Is there any fast image viewer capable of displaying sRGB and aRGB
images properly?
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:25:23 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:

I gave a try to Faststone, which is advertised as a fast image viewer,
but in reality is painfully slow. To make an example, on a Centrino
1.4GHz with 2GB RAM Faststone took over 11 seconds to open a 17MP image,
while Compupic took less than 2 seconds to open the same image.
Unfortunately Compupic doesn't distinguish between colour spaces and
assumes any image is sRGB.
Is there any fast image viewer capable of displaying sRGB and aRGB
images properly?

gwenview has always worked well for me.

"Alfred Molon" wrote in message
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I gave a try to Faststone, which is advertised as a fast image viewer,
but in reality is painfully slow. To make an example, on a Centrino
1.4GHz with 2GB RAM Faststone took over 11 seconds to open a 17MP image,
while Compupic took less than 2 seconds to open the same image.
Unfortunately Compupic doesn't distinguish between colour spaces and
assumes any image is sRGB.
Is there any fast image viewer capable of displaying sRGB and aRGB
images properly?
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

Something's not right. On a 4 or 5 yr old 2.4GHz Athlon XP with 1.25Gb RAM,
FastStone opens up 15MP images for me in 2 secs.

In article , ray says...

gwenview has always worked well for me.

But won't run under XP :-(
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

In article , Matt Ion says...

IrfanView is a great, fast, free viewer/browser. No idea if it will
distinguish sRGB/aRGB, but for the price, it's worth a try

I have it, but it won't distinguish between colour spaces.
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

In article , Steve B says...

Something's not right. On a 4 or 5 yr old 2.4GHz Athlon XP with 1.25Gb RAM,
FastStone opens up 15MP images for me in 2 secs.

I don't know. Installed the latest version, and Faststone took over 11
seconds to open a 17MP image. Painfully slow compared to Compupic which
took less than 2 seconds. I'm using a Centrino 1.4GHz with 2GB RAM.
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:15:30 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , ray says...

gwenview has always worked well for me.

But won't run under XP :-(

Oh. chuckle Then, `kuickview` is not an option for you, either.

Jonesy

Alfred Molon wrote:
I gave a try to Faststone, which is advertised as a fast image viewer,
but in reality is painfully slow. To make an example, on a Centrino
1.4GHz with 2GB RAM Faststone took over 11 seconds to open a 17MP image,
while Compupic took less than 2 seconds to open the same image.
Unfortunately Compupic doesn't distinguish between colour spaces and
assumes any image is sRGB.
Is there any fast image viewer capable of displaying sRGB and aRGB
images properly?

I have never noticed Faststone being slow on any image, even on my
1.4GHz 512 meg laptop. Could you have something loaded that is
competing for CPU cycles?

But for general image browsing, I use Irfanview, which is fast, and
easy, and quite powerful. Don't know about how it displays other color
spaces.

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:15:30 +0200, Alfred Molon wrote:

In article , ray says...

gwenview has always worked well for me.

But won't run under XP :-(

I seem to have missed that requirement in your original post! Perhaps it's
time to explore dual booting Linux - or at least boot a Live CD.

In article , Ron Hunter
says...

I have never noticed Faststone being slow on any image, even on my
1.4GHz 512 meg laptop. Could you have something loaded that is
competing for CPU cycles?

That does not explain why Compupic is so fast on the same machine...
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site