Lag when answering cards

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been running into a frustrating issue. Whenever I answer a card in Anki, there’s a delay of about 0.5 to 5 seconds before the next card shows up.

Here’s what I’ve already tried:

  • Disabled all add-ons and tested

  • Synced and checked media

  • Ran Check Database

  • Resized window

  • Reinstalled Anki completely

I’m currently on Windows ARM (so running the x64 build under emulation).

Has anyone else run into this kind of lag, and if so, what helped you solve it? Any other tips would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi Markowski,

The lag you’re experiencing between cards is certainly frustrating! While I couldn’t find any forum posts specifically addressing this exact issue, I can offer some troubleshooting suggestions:

Things to try:

  1. Check your timer settings

    • Go to your deck options
    • Under the Timer section, check if “Show answer timer” and “Stop timer on answer” settings might be affecting performance

  2. Adjust maximum interval settings

    • Sometimes large maximum intervals (default is 100 years) can cause performance issues
    • Try temporarily reducing this in deck options under Advanced settings

  3. Video driver issues

    • Since you’re running Windows ARM with x64 emulation, this could be causing performance issues
    • Try changing your video driver in Anki preferences (or via the gldriver file)
    • Test all three driver options to see if any improve performance

  4. Learn ahead limit

    • Adjusting the learn ahead limit in preferences might help
    • This controls how far ahead Anki looks for cards

  5. Simplify your cards

    • If your cards contain complex media or JavaScript, this could be slowing things down
    • Try testing with a simple text-only deck to see if the issue persists

Since you’re running Anki under emulation on Windows ARM, the performance issues might be related to this specific setup. The x64 emulation layer could be introducing additional overhead.

Have you noticed if the lag is worse with certain types of cards (those with images/media vs. plain text)?

If none of these suggestions help, you might want to try posting on the Anki forums as well, since this seems to be more of an Anki core performance issue rather than an AnkiHub-specific problem.

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Hi,

Can you tell us if this issue occurs with any Anki card or only with the AnKing note type? A screen recording of the issue would also be very helpful.

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It occurs with any anki card but I notice it more with ankihub cards. Here is a screen recording for your reference.

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Please try changing the video driver to Software by going to Tools > Preferences.

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I have tried all of them including software and none seem to improve the problem.

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That’s odd. This is a very annoying bug, and changing the video driver almost always fixes the issue. Unfortunately, as this is a core Anki problem that can be quite technical, it’s outside the scope of what I can help with.

Please try posting about this on the Anki forums, where you might get more help: https://forums.ankiweb.net/

Let us know if you have any other questions. :blush:

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Another common cause of this is images. The next Anki release will hopefully fix this (I already proposed a fix).

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