Slow, very slow

[Gazzieh]

We have InDesign CS2 installed and the user is trying to do some editing but the system is incredibly slow. There are many layers on each document and the creation is quite elaborate and I am wondering if this is down to the graphics card (basically, at present the graphics are onboard the motherboard).

When rendering the system runs for 50% then seems to hang. If you click away you get the busy bong and then when you click back the whole image appears. The processor is sitting at about 260,000k but does at times shoot up to 640,000k. The unit has a lot of RAM but I'm wondering if the CPU is simply overworked or if there is a flaw in InDesign?

 

[jmgalvin]

You did not mention OS or system. I'm assuming it's Win XP on a pentium type processor. If you happen to be running it on Vista, ID has not yet been optimized for that.

Yes, ID will benefit from a good bit of ram and a vid card. We run it on Mac G4 powermacs and G5 Imacs - all with 1.5 gigs of ram and a 64 meg video card - with no problem, on docs up to about 120 pages.

You can speed things up if you go to View menu/Display performance and select one of the lower settings. We run at full quality on the above machines.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Gazzieh]

Sorry, I should have defined. Yes, the system is XP SP2 and the processor is an Intel P4 2GHz. I will replace the workstations with a higher spec processor as well as a higher spec graphics card.

Thanks!