Anki "processing..." between every single review

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Upon restarting my pc and opening Anki, I can review cards as normal. After around 20-50 reviews, I started to get “Processing…” popup between almost every single review. This lasts .5-2 seconds per review.

Even when disabling all addons, this persists. It is slightly random in terms of when it will start happening upon opening anki fresh, but it will eventually happen. I originally thought it could be related to either AnkiConnect or FSRS, but disabling those two (or all addons) does not solve the issue.

I am on Windows 11 and I have an SSD installed. My PC is high spec, Ryzen 9 3900X, 32GB ram, and a 3080ti. I do not run heavy programs while doing anki reps, I have a couple browser windows open, spotify thats really it. I don’t think I should have major problems with Anki.

I actually experienced a worse version of this on my prior PC (the card would not flip over visually when I hit enter like a delay/lag) but I thought upon upgrading it would go away yet here I am.

The deck in question is a JP study deck, sentence card style. It has audio and images on the back side. There are around 20k cards in the deck.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? This is heavily disrupting my review sessions. When I use my phone to review on ankidroid there are no such isseus and my PC is far more powerful than my phone. I’ve used Anki for 10 years and I never had issues until somewhat recently.

I tried the troubleshooting guide already

  • Restarting has no real impact
  • Safe mode has no impact
  • Anki version is latest qt6
  • Database and media checked, no impact
  • Restart doesnt seem to change anything, although if processing is very slow a restart might solve it for 30 ish reviews
  • Video driver is direct3d, software did the same thing
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Thank you for trying those Troubleshooting checklist things first. That helps narrow it down.

I have a few ideas, but I’ll admit they mostly of the “I wonder if…” variety. I’ll leave it up to you whether they sound worth trying or not. [In case it becomes helpful, this thread has ideas about what sorts of things cause it to pop up. How to find out what Anki is "Processing..."? - #6 by dae]

  1. If the cards are all from the same note type, is it possible that the templates are running scripts that are buggy or taking extra time to finish?

  2. Have you tried running Anki from a terminal window? It’s not a crash, but if there are errors being thrown, they might show up there.

  3. Have you tried exporting your collection as apkg or colpkg, and importing it into a fresh profile?

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Does the issue exist in the current release candidate in the beta testing section? Do you use third-party tools that monitor the clipboard?

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