William, How many People are in your file and what the size of your .fdb file?
I have 221,693 persons and my .fdb is 423,072 KB Jay On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:15 PM, William Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com>wrote: > No speed problems running Legacy 8 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64, 8 GB's > memory, 2009 computer. > > > > I already got rid of Legacy 7.5. I'm very satisfied with Legacy 8 and I > give many thanks to the developers. My ancestors thank you too. > > > > Also thanks to all of the beta testers. This is a fine product and very > reasonably priced. > > > > *From:* John B. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:07 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] High CPU usage > > > > Gavin, et al, > > 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. > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
