Re: Some Anquet V6 notes
- From: "druidh" <druidh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:14:13 GMT
"GeoffC" <vTheEnemygy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Some of my preliminary notes on V6 for those interested, particularly the
> performance - a couple of
> other people have reported the same thing. I wonder if others are finding
> this too.
>
> First though, a couple of embarassing problems:-
>
> I ran the first installer to install the program, then the map installer
> took over and said it
> couldn't find the program it had just installed. It was looking for the
> install location in the
> wrong registry key.
> Printing:- the drop-down list for orientation of the Print rectangle
> is the wrong way round - select Portrait and it goes Landscape, select
> Landscape and it goes Portrait.
>
> But enough mirth, the important thing I found is the speed, or lack of it.
> Unlike V1.2, V6 is a .Net
> application as has been mentioned already, and it therefore installs the
> .Net framework. This means
> that V6 is compiled into an intermediate language MSIL and converted to
> native code dynamically,
> which must impact performance for an intensive program like this.
>
> Comparing it with Memory Map for the common operations of scrolling the
> map and zooming in and out,
> it is very slow. MM always was noticeably faster, but is now much faster.
> Zooming in or out one
> level is near instantaneous in MM, but an hourglass appears for *several
> seconds* in
> V6. Scrolling the map in V6 is like dragging through treacle, with the map
> juddering and the
> hourglass appearing if you drag a bit too fast. This was despite using
> 108Mb of memory on my system
> (MM was using 8Mb).
>
> I was careful to compare them at the same zoom level, since all the
> software packages scroll slower
> as you zoom outwards. I don't know about the various features yet, but
> this really is a pain for the
> basic operation of perusing maps.
>
> Incidentally, if anyone was wondering if I could work the same magic with
> V6 and old maps as I did
> for MM, forget it - the maps are in a different file structure.
>
> Regards
>
> -- GeoffC
>
> Take out TheEnemy to email me
>
> http://v-g.me.uk
I've just installed the "Great Britain on one DVD" package on my system.
I didn't get the install location issue, though I was careful to make sure I
didn't get a 2nd Autorun of the install when I had to re-insert the disk
after entering the serial number.
Printing seems to be OK - I get Landscape if that's what I chose.
Scrolling / zooming seems to be the same as the old version. I did look at
the cache settings, which had originally allowed 180 MB of memory for zoom
levels. Cutting this to the minimum gets this down to around 64 MB. This is
on a 1GB RAM system, I wonder if it's proportional to installed memory?
Zooming takes place as fast as I can click on the Zoom icon. Scrolling has a
slight delay, which is more noticeble at the smaller zoom settings (e.g.
anything lower than 33.33%).
Ain't tried the PPC install yet or seen what it's like on a slower system
(e.g. my laptop).
Data import routine seems to have worked though - all my old routes have
suddenly appeared, although Waypoints and Nodes are not differentiated,
which is a bit of a bind.
I like the new "hold the button down" route planning - gives continuous
routes, and will create "corners" if you pause long enough.
Anquet V06 - OSGB 1:50,000
1GB RAM, Athlon 2600, nVidia 4400
druidh
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