trust me, screenupdating is not the problem, it's turned off.

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Gary


"NOPIK" wrote in message
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On Mar 31, 7:41 am, "Gary Keramidas" <GKeramidasATmsn.com wrote:
i am just curious if anyone sees a substantial degradation of speed when
using
vistax64/2007 vs xp/2003.


Office efficiency mostly depends on video driver perfomance (to test,
you need to disable screen update in your macro) - I test Offices from
97 to 2007 on Core 2 Duo 6300 with 2Gb RAM (you must have at least 2Gb
to archieve same memory space conditions in XP and Vista, otherwise,
you can compensate it with multiply reloads of Office application you
test, to assure, that it completely cashed in RAM) and windows from
98SE(Support only 768Mb RAM and old Offices) to Vista. Results depend
only on Video subsystem (used onboard, PCI, PCI-E), or, on Driver
performance (tested on PCI-E GeForce6800 with different ForceWare
versions). Win98 gives worse results, than other systems - it has no
full video hardware acceleration support (I used system with AMDs X2
and Athlon, both based on Manchester core to test dependense on CPU
number). Win2000's result is best, and I bet, due well optimised
drivers (almost all issues fixed, after a long time). Vista shows best
multiple CPU support (for macro, that creates word report and
PowerPoint poster,based on external application data, sent to Excel)