On 13 Aug 2006 at 14:51, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I'd say they probably assume most people have 512 Megs of RAM as most > computers seem to ship with that now, and if you really want > performance out of a system, you need more RAM. I can't imagine > Windows XP on 256 Megs of RAM. Actually, I've seen it before. A friend > was running an old PC with Finale 2006 with just 256 Megs of physical > ram. It was dirt slow. Adding more ram seemed to turn night into day > on that machine.
Give me a break. Before the addition of GPO, Finale was a very low- consumption application in terms of using computing resources, except for screen drawing. Finale should run just fine in 256MBs on a computer that is 500MHz or faster. If you saw Finale running on 256MBs very slowly, then it was probably a slow computer. Additional RAM might speed up such a computer somewhat, but probably the graphics subsystem and a slow hard drive were more to blame than the RAM. It also might depend on the Windows version involved. WinXP needs a minimum of 256MBs to be usable, and I choose 512 for systems for cheap customers and 1GB for those who aren't cheapskates. If it's Win2K, then 128MBs is going to work OK, but 256MBs is better. I run a P4 500 with 768MBs of RAM (which is maxed out for this computer), and it's fine. Finale 2005 (the last demo I've downloaded) runs just as fast as Finale 2003, which is just fine. The recommendation to add RAM is a good one, though. But I, too, am puzzled why the installer is refusing to install on a machine that has the stated minimum of RAM. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
