Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: WF Pro 4 : Why is it so slow?
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: A possible clue to the cause
Quite frankly, I gave up on WFPro long ago on account of speed, not sure, but it might have been v2. However I still stick to WFClassic.
A couple of years ago, WFClassic became very slow to render the screen, from one segment to another. It took a while until similar problems began to occur in a few other programs too, however WFC was the first one where it was noticeable.
I can't remember exactly what was my troubleshooting procedure, but it led me to the video board. I had a 512 Mb nVidia-based video card. Went shopping for a replacement, found a newer equivalent model, but too expensive. Another store offered me a 2 GB AMD Radeon video board for less than one-third of that nVidia-512 price, so I bought it.
Findings on replacement...
1. Two electrolytic capacitors on the nVidia were "blown";
2. the Radeon does not overheat like nVidia;
3. WFClassic became much faster than before the failure.
So it's possible that WordFast software by concept is quite demanding on the video board and its memory. I have [b]no evidence[/b] of that, it's just my first conclusion from ONE case.
Yet it might be worth checking. Perhaps a Xeon processor and SSD storage with a lame video interface would still make (any) WordFast slow. Any takers?
[Edited at 2016-05-28 18:12 GMT]
Topic: WF Pro 4 : Why is it so slow?
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: A possible clue to the cause
Quite frankly, I gave up on WFPro long ago on account of speed, not sure, but it might have been v2. However I still stick to WFClassic.
A couple of years ago, WFClassic became very slow to render the screen, from one segment to another. It took a while until similar problems began to occur in a few other programs too, however WFC was the first one where it was noticeable.
I can't remember exactly what was my troubleshooting procedure, but it led me to the video board. I had a 512 Mb nVidia-based video card. Went shopping for a replacement, found a newer equivalent model, but too expensive. Another store offered me a 2 GB AMD Radeon video board for less than one-third of that nVidia-512 price, so I bought it.
Findings on replacement...
1. Two electrolytic capacitors on the nVidia were "blown";
2. the Radeon does not overheat like nVidia;
3. WFClassic became much faster than before the failure.
So it's possible that WordFast software by concept is quite demanding on the video board and its memory. I have [b]no evidence[/b] of that, it's just my first conclusion from ONE case.
Yet it might be worth checking. Perhaps a Xeon processor and SSD storage with a lame video interface would still make (any) WordFast slow. Any takers?
[Edited at 2016-05-28 18:12 GMT]