Matlab very slow response

Others have reported Matlab being very slow. As a newbie, I find this performance extraordinary and very de-motivating. I have signed on and paid for a Student licence £100 ish with a half a dozen apps for control eng

Matlab takes ca 2 mins to intitialise and leaves you with a stuck screen not even giving a rotating wheel to tell you its not stuck.

When putting in even simple expressions these can take a minute to compute (Xcel in a heartbeat). The cursor disappears and the chevrons, takes ages to return

Have I got a crippled version for students?

Is it an on line version ?

should I disable my apps I am not using just now?

I have R2019

and a newish PC W8.1. it runs fine on other stuff. I only have windows defender

surely commercial orgs couldnt put up with this performance

what am I doing wrong?

please help - sorry if this makes me a numpty

Robin

MATLAB Version: 9.7.0.1247435 (R2019b) Update 2MATLAB License Number: STUDENT

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Version 6.3 (Build 9600)

Java Version: Java 1.8.0_202-b08 with Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM mixed mode

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MATLAB Version 9.7 (R2019b)

Simulink Version 10.0 (R2019b)

Control System Toolbox Version 10.7 (R2019b)

Curve Fitting Toolbox Version 3.5.10 (R2019b)

DSP System Toolbox Version 9.9 (R2019b)

Fuzzy Logic Toolbox Version 2.6 (R2019b)

Global Optimization Toolbox Version 4.2 (R2019b)

Image Processing Toolbox Version 11.0 (R2019b)

Instrument Control Toolbox Version 4.1 (R2019b)

Mapping Toolbox Version 4.9 (R2019b)

Model Predictive Control Toolbox Version 6.3.1 (R2019b)

Optimization Toolbox Version 8.4 (R2019b)

Parallel Computing Toolbox Version 7.1 (R2019b)

Partial Differential Equation Toolbox Version 3.3 (R2019b)

Robust Control Toolbox Version 6.7 (R2019b)

Signal Processing Toolbox Version 8.3 (R2019b)

Simulink Control Design Version 5.4 (R2019b)

Simulink Design Optimization Version 3.7 (R2019b)

Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox Version 11.6 (R2019b)

Symbolic Math Toolbox Version 8.4 (R2019b)

System Identification Toolbox Version 9.11 (R2019b)

[per isakson]

"Have I got a crippled version for students?" No, there are no crippled versions.

Something is obviously wrong. You are entitled to Installation Help

Students: Technical support from MathWorks is available for activation, installation and bug-related issues.

[Adam Danz]

Here are some troubleshooting steps to take

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/92566-why-does-matlab-get-stuck-in-the-initializing-or-busy-state-or-take-a-long-time-to-start

Answer 1

[robin teslar]

this problem has been solved, users must dl then earlier version 2018 of ML and check suitability for W8.1

ML was careless in not advising new users, I wasted 2 days on this problem

hope ML has fixed this

Answer 2

[joao cleber]

try this command:

opengl('save','software')

[Adam Danz]

I doubt this is the problem.

Just be sure to understand what this does prior to trying it out.

opengl('save',pref)

opengl software

Answer 3

[Vinai Datta Thatiparthi]

Hello Robin,

This is a link to the System Requirements to install and run MATLAB on your PC -

https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/previous-releases.html

On this page, if you navigate to the Windows requirements for the releases R2017b and R2018b, you'll find that Windows 8 is not supported as of R2017b, and Windows 8.1 is not supported as of R2018b.

Hope this helps!