Cp6 - Mysterious SLOW DOWN once a particular slide is viewed

Hello all,
I am experiencing a very strange problem.
My self-paced eLearning course functions perfectly normal and responsive up until it reached a particular slide. I am not using the playbar, so the learner navigates by way of forward and back buttons (or the TOC).
Clicking the navigation buttons essentially changes to the next slide instantly. That is, until they reach a specific slide. Clicking the forward button and every other button after this point requires a consistent 2 seconds to respond.
On the surface, this slide doesn't appear to be unusual in any way. It functions as a "menu" slide with 9 Smart Shapes acting as buttons. There are a few traditional text captions and 3 small images. The 9 Smart Shapes are simply instructed to JUMP to a specified slide On Success.
Some observations:
- Slides before remain responsive - even after entering this menu slide
- Slides after this menu slide are SLOW
- Slides after this menu slide are normal, if this slide in bypassed
- If I hide this slide, the SLOWNESS is gone on all slides. In other words, the problem is absolutely attributed to this menu slide
- The slowness is observed in both Preview Project and Published modes.
Then I tried the process of elimination by removing a row (3 Smart Shapes) and tested preview. This time no slowness was observed. Long story short, I eventually undeleted all the Smart Shapes and no further slowness was observed.
So, the problem no longer exists! Question is... does anyone know why this happened?

Firstly, Thank you for posting about the problem. few Question--
Do you happen to use any widget in your project, may not necessarily be on this slide itself?
Did you emplement any Conditonal Advance Action onto your project?
if you try to to implement a similar set up on another project the problem would be reproduced?
Was the slowness observed locally or on LMS?
It would be tough to predict the reason for this problem in first appearance, but I think this could be a one time glitch.
Thanks,
Anjaneai

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