> If I were to speculate the user has part of the blame too. I mean if someone is > trying to read 7z solid compressed assets to any frontend of course it will take ages > to load.
well yes, that would be a poor use case for solid compression, although a good piece of software would give a clear indication of what was happening.
tearing while scrolling etc. is something else tho, likely something to do with it being such old Windows code.