Hello everyone. I’ve updated the Codex application (it was necessary), and it now works the same way for both ChatGPT and Codex. However, I’ve noticed that each task takes a long time to complete. Somebody has the same problem? I’m using chatGPT codex app in Windows 11.

I thinks exactly same. I experienced it.

Same here. Any way to revert to the dedicated Codex app?

Having the same problem with the new ChatGPT/Codex app on Windows. My entire app also gets extremely slow and laggy if there is a single thread running. Basically unusable right now.

I’ve had to move most of my real work over to Claude because of how slow GPT is now after the update on the 9th or 10th. It’s completely unusable. If it’s not better by monday I’ll move my pro account over to pay for more tokens with claude.

I’m hitting this issue too where ChatGPT Codex gets extremely slow to display UI events and actions. It takes 5-6 seconds to show hover effects for buttons or to display the model selector pop-up after clicking it. Same thing for typing: you type and then it takes 5-6 seconds for the text to show up…

Update: I restarted my entire PC (not just the app), and that seems to have solved the problem for me. I haven’t been able to do much testing yet since the restart, so I’m not sure if it’s a permanent fix. But the immediate difference in speed was massive. Give this a try if you haven’t already @ema…

not only slower, it also lost all my threads in all projects. Some threads just don’t load in the app while others open but I get an error when I try anything. Even new threads are giving the same error. In summary, it is broken and useless to me. How do I revert?

The SAME!!! so freaking slow. After Restart the same.

I can confirm a useful stop-gap on Windows 11 with the new unified ChatGPT/Codex desktop app. On Codex 26.810.6296.0, I fully exited the app and relaunched it with GPU acceleration disabled using --disable-gpu. After that, mouse movement and typing became responsive, and I could enter/exit several c…

Is the new ChatGPT Codex application slower?

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Is the new ChatGPT Codex application slower?

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