I am not an employee of Millennia but have been a user and tester for 10 years so I can be frank... and maybe not too politic. ;-)
Yes, L8 can run on small computers with limited resources and really old Windows versions, but it will be slow.
L8 runs best on XP or above Windows and has been tested on all versions through Win8. (I do not know if anyone has done Win 8.1 testing.)
It has been tested on reasonable modern computers with databases that are at or near the spec limits. Several FF of 300-500K people have performed very well.
Family View will be slower if you have PP Alerts and FS Integration turned on; and without them it will still be a bit slower than L7.5. as trying to draw the new FV form just seems to take longer.
Please note that double click navigation is gone. I hated that at first but have come to see that single click is more effective and faster and some of the new services and tools on FV make life easier.
In real life, you are not spending all of your time redrawing this form, but you are going to be spending a lot of time editing and adding data. And this is just as fast or faster than before.
Have you noted the 2.2 options to enable automatic sorting of children, marriages and events. That alone has saved me so much times...
And note that now you can now right click on a child in a family and sort the children.
Some of us testers, who consider ourselves power users of Legacy, have asked for and gotten tweaks that make our - and yours! - Legacy experience better. As you explore and play with Legacy 8, you will soon decide you do not want to return to L7.5. The key is now and always the ability to get our research documented. This is now easier with L8. It may be different from what you did before, but it is better.
john.
At 08:08 PM 11/28/2013, Gavin Nicholson wrote:
Thanks Chris,
Of course it depends on the specs of your computer. My netbook has an Atom N270 processor and 2GB RAM. As I said it works perfectly with V7.5 but is terribly slow with V8 even with PP turned off. Using the sample database with only 160 people is exactly the same. I assume if I install it on my 8 core i7 desktop it will be fine but that is not the point.
Whilst it "runs" it is not very useable. If Millennia can't optimise this any better then they need to upgrade their hardware specifications. I just looked and the only thing they have changed is the HDD space (not really important) and the RAM requirement which is now 1GB recommended and I have 2GB so as I said something is wrong.
Gavin...
From: Chris Seens [ mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 3:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] High CPU usage
I checked taskmgr.exe after your suggestion though I notice no slowdown on my laptop. It shows very little CPU except when first loading (about 7%) down to 0% once loaded. The last time I had that problem I found malware on my computer that was sucking all my CPU. Taskmgr did not explain at the time where all the CPU was going. I used Sophos Virus Removal Tool to find and kill the malware which I believe is a free tool. You can use this tool periodically in addition to your own virus software to get rid of any malware.
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