FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

[Alan Barber]

Well, it doesn't work that way for me.

Laptop: four year old Sony, optimized for battery life over performance; 1.2 GHz, .5 GB RAM (!!), XP SP3; FM8p273.

Desktop: Dual CPU 2.13 GHz, 4GB RAM, Vista SP1; FM8p277.

With the desktop it takes six seconds to scroll across two 90character lines with Paragraph, Character, and Table Designers open. Also six seconds with all designers closed. Plus or minus a second. Tried it with Photoshop and Illustrator also open; same result.

With the laptop, ten seconds with 'em open, six with 'em closed. A modest hit, I say, for a machine that's always sluggish.

Maybe the complexity of the document matters. I used a single, fourteen page document with only four paragraph tags. No graphics, no tables.

That desktop is by no means high performance. I bought a similar one for my wife last month for under $500. I've always found Vista to be very snappy, even as others have complained of sluggish performance.

Alan Barber

Richard Combs wrote:
> Your explanation makes sense, and suggests that the degree of slowdown
will depend on how many different pgf and char tags the cursor moves
through. There's a lot of information displayed in the Designer dialogs,
and if it changes every few characters or lines... 

I *think* (not sure though) that FM seems to check *every* time the
arrow key is pressed, regardless of whether there is an actual char tag
that it moves through. So, it slows down even when simply moving along
the same paragraph for example.