On 13 Jul 2005 at 20:00, Ken Durling wrote: > At 06:40 PM 7/13/2005, you wrote: > >Do people with more modern Windows PCs find the same comparative > >difference between Sibelius 3 and 4? Or is there some odd > >incompatibility with the graphics subsystem on my PC? > > I have two PCs, one a modern fast (3.2Ghz) laptop, and a slower > (866Mhz) desktop. I still have v.3 alongside v.4 on the fast machine, > and I don't see a perceivable difference in speed. I only have the > Sib 4 demo on my desktop at the moment, and on it, the cursor is > indeed slower to appear, (I used Ctrl T as your example) maybe as much > as a second as you say, but once flashing there's no delay in entering > text. I'm not sure clock speed is the only factor, although I don't > think these programs are that taxing on a video card. Possibly > available RAM is a factor, as Sib 4 uses considerably more. I assume > you're comparing the speeds of demo versions in both cases?
Yes. I have only the demo versions. Your desktop is closer to the speed of my PC (500MHz P4), but I do have lots of RAM (768MBs). I have no noticeable display slowdowns in any other programs. The delay I mentioned after the cursor appears may be me misremembering -- for a while I didn't realize that there was a problem with a delay for the cursor appearing, and was typing as soon as I'd clicked, and then waiting for text to appear. Perhaps I didn't check again after I realized I needed to wait for the cursor. I just tested, and it's not as long a delay, but there's a real "flashing text" problem -- it seems to be redrawing the whole text object between each keystroke, and the effect is about like what you see wiht <BLINK> in a web page -- in other words, highly disconcerting. My PC is clearly not up to snuff for running Sibelius 4. Finale 2K3 runs just fine, with no redraw lags. I downloaded the Finale 2K5 demo today, and it has no problems of that nature, either, though it does seem to be considerably slower doing autosaves (which it's not doing to the usual ASV file, but it is still doing some kind of saving process that is holding up the UI until it's finished; it's about double the time that the Autosave process takes in 2K3), but that may have something to do with the fact that the demo can't save a file, and has to keep it in RAM and/or in the temp folder. So, there is a very definite performance difference on older PCs that is vastly in Finale's favor. At least, until the release of Finale 2006. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
