On 14 Jul 2005 at 14:37, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 14 Jul 2005, at 2:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >> That's because Finale doesn't use OpenGL-enhanced drawing. > >> > >> If you have an OpenGL-compatible video card, drawing in Sib 3 is > >> virtually instantaneous, and drawing in Sib 4 is still very good. > >> (There are some slowdowns when you have to actually adjust things, > >> but just dragging or scrolling the music is very speedy.) > > > > Darcy, how would you know what the redraw is like on a PC? > > When Sib3 first came out, there was a discussion on this list of the > effectively instantaneous graphics-card assisted redraw. Several PC > users downloaded the demo and reported the same results.
I wonder if Ken's 866MHz PC has an OpenGL graphics card with 32MBs or more? > If you don't have a graphics card that is compatible with Sib's OpenGL > drawing, then of course redraw will be slower, because it can't be > offloaded to the graphics card. That's true no matter which platform > you are using. Well, as long as I'm poor and can't afford to upgrade my whole PC setup, I wouldn't be able to use Sibelius. At this point, I wouldn't choose to do so, anyway. By the time Finale loses the market to Sibelius (which I think it will, unless something drastic happens to the direction Finale is going in), I'll probably be able to afford a new PC. -- 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
