This will not be an easy question to handle for anyone as it involves a lot of variables. We shifted on to Windows 8.1 and started observing this issue.
OS: Windows 8.1 Enterprise
VS: Visual Studio 2008 SP1
VF: Intel(R) Visual Fortran Compiler Integration for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2008, 11.1.3469.2008
When you have variables added to the watch window and are stepping through the code (F10), Visual Studio can take up to 3 seconds going through each line when going through Fortran projects. The mouse cursor would change to waiting (small circle) when the program is waiting to move to the next line. This depends on the number of variables that are being added to the Watch window i.e. a couple of variable then wait time may be less than 0.1 second, up to say 50 variables wait time > 3 seconds each line. If you get rid of all the variables in the watch window, debugging would run smoothly without any delays.
We started observing this issue with Windows 8.1. Windows 7 did not have this issue keeping all the other installations the same. I tried to reproduce the same issue on a VM, but could not and the debugging ran smoothly for the same project regardless of the number of variable added to the watch window. May be it is because of some Hotfix.
This is really frustating to us, and any help from your guys would be hugely appreciated.
Thank you.
