David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
I'll give you a break. I saw the Task Manager and it was using a LOT of
virtual Memory. In fact, the friend was using Finale 2005 not 2006. My
mistake. So, no GPO. But Finale 2005 was using soundfonts, so, there
might have been some overhead there. But it was chewing up a lot of
memory, and the Paging file usage was great fun to watch when Finale was
doing stuff............
Finale should run just fine in 256MBs on a computer that is 500MHz or
faster.
Yeah, if you like virtual memory. It would be like running a car on
deflated tires.
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.
Nope, it was a 600 Mhz Pentium III. It has a 7200 RPM drive, and the
graphics card I don't know what it was. The friend has upgraded to
768Megs of Ram (added a 512Meg DIMM) and he reports that he is flying
now compared to earlier.
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