Just downloaded ‘5’. Actually I had downloaded 5 as a beta and thought it was really slow. Just thought they had to do some tweeking as it was a beta and I quickly went back to using 4. But I purchased 5 and downloaded it yesterday. And it is * slow * ! Just backspacing to correct some text makes me wait several seconds before the letters disappear and allow me to type again. Moving the horizontal bar to move the display takes several seconds. What’s up? Freeway 4 seems like lightning in comparison.
I use a minmac 1.66 dual core pentium which you would think would be sufficient for working on my web site contruction. but no.
What’s up? If it cannot be speeded up, I’ll be forced to go back to ‘4’ and figure I wasted the money…
You can never have too much Ram and it is pretty cheap these days.
But seriously I wouldn’t have thought 5’s memory requirements to be much different to 4 - are you sure there is not something else going on in there systemwise.
What system are you using - if you’ve upgraded to Leopard as well…
I’m running Freeway 5 both on a Powerbook G4 1.67 (512MB RAM) and a MacPro Dualcore 2.66 (3GB RAM, 10.000 RPM HD). I can’t say Freeway is running slow on either one of them.
Is the text you are editing in large HTML items containing a lot of
other text and possibly inline graphic items? If so then this may be
the cause of the problem. It’s fairly surprising that this is that
much different to Freeway 4 though because while there are extra
calculations happening in 5 we made a lot of speed improvements in
text overall.
If the large HTML items are causing problems then try breaking it up
into smaller HTML items, you’ll find it faster to work with.
Hope this helps,
Joe Billings
Support Technician
Softpress Systems Ltd
On 30 Mar 2008, at 10:24, Richard wrote:
I’m running Freeway 5 both on a Powerbook G4 1.67 (512MB RAM) and a
MacPro Dualcore 2.66 (3GB RAM, 10.000 RPM HD). I can’t say Freeway
is running slow on either one of them.
Thanks for all the suggestions and comments. My mini has a gig of ram. I tried quitting other programs (except iTunes - have to have something to listen to - and Safari - sourcing for some articles to include on the site) But I will try completely rebooting this morning and running nothing else to see if the prob continues. Also will check for large html items.
Don’t know if this is still the case but in the past Safari has been
shown to demand considerably more memory than Firefox for example. A
gig of RAM is not huge these days. Freeway 5 runs fine on my Mini
with 2gb although I have noticed that Save takes much longer than FW4.
Pete
On 30 Mar 2008, at 14:45, medicis wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions and comments. My mini has a gig of
ram. I tried quitting other programs (except iTunes - have to have
something to listen to - and Safari - sourcing for some articles to
include on the site) But I will try completely rebooting this
morning and running nothing else to see if the prob continues. Also
will check for large html items.