SendKeys types character very very slow on WindowsServer 2008R2, Windows 8

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 3072

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Run simple test on Windows Server 2008 R2 with
Driver.FindElement(By.Id("a")).SendKeys("Test").

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Text types very slow.
output of nunit-console:
Timeout awaiting keypress: 84
Timeout awaiting keypress: 69
and etc.
with russian characters all's ok. on another machine winServer 2008R2 also.

Selenium version: 2.5.1.0 (tried with 2.15 also)
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
Browser: Internet Explorer
Browser version: IE8 x64

Reported by lightTheX on 2011-12-16 13:06:25

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2011-12-26 06:58:52

• Labels added: Component-WebDriver, Performance

[lukeis]

Reported by dawagner on 2012-04-11 14:17:59

• Status changed: Accepted
• Labels added: Browser-IE

[lukeis]

I am seeing this too. Any updates?

Reported by shawna.qian on 2012-09-08 19:39:57

[lukeis]

You need to use at the 64-bit IEDriverServer.exe if you're using 64-bit IE, or the 32-bit
IEDriverServer if you're using 32-bit IE.

Reported by dawagner on 2012-09-08 23:39:40

[lukeis]

I am using 64bit 2.25.3 version.  

Reported by shawna.qian on 2012-09-09 03:23:14

[lukeis]

You need to use the 32 bit version of the IEDriverServer.exe if you are using the 32
bit IE client (which most people do). You may have a 64bit machine but you wouldn't
ordinarily use a 64bit version of IE. Download and use the 32bit version and see.

Matt.

Reported by mattdone on 2012-09-18 06:15:12

[lukeis]

Thanks a lot Matt. I even don't think about that possibility, because Win8 and everything
that connect to this OS is less informative that anything in the world. So I installed
x32 driver and everything go much smoothly and I can see something after login screen
:)

Reported by absolutelynoname08 on 2012-12-05 15:08:48