Hey Team!
Love Logos 4, Love the look- what you are doing with the product ...everything!
However, the performance is really hurting. I know there are some other posts so I'll try and give new information and as much detail as I can. (I was a software engineers for years = I know the pain of remote diagnostics, especially performance issues.) Also, I am just getting used to version 4 terminology, so if I get it wrong or you can't follow - my apologies in advance.
My System:
Lenovo Tablet Vista - Service Pack 2
Vista "Windows Experience Index" = 2.8
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU L7500 @ 1.60 GHz
Memory 3.00 GB (Usage with Logo running an all other products off is 63% - no virtual memory)
No products running except Firefox and this window. CPU use when not typing is 10 to 20%. Task manager is monitoring all users.
Issue: Tabs like "Cited By" and "Power Lookup" Bog down the product to unacceptable levels.
If I close everything and just have a bible tab on the system, scrolling is OK. Not smooth, but it responds to each mouse click on the down arrow - slower than any other product on my system, but you do get some feeling of feedback for your clicking effort.
If I have a "Power Lookup" Tab active, then it is noticably slower, but you can tell its responding to clicks. Holding the button down can move the screen, but if the Power look up tab is working on something, then it has trouble responding. In fact if the Power Lookup is working and you click on another product (such as Firefox) and then click back in Logo 4 to give it focus, it may not respond for a few seconds. It appears the Power Lookup thread priority is up too high, not allowing the main window to clear its message queue. (that's just a way to say what it looks like, not trying to diagnose anything.)
I created a Guide with only "Literary Typing" and "Interesting Words". Then added the guide to the same Link Set as the Bible. That exacerbates the scrolling problem. Actually the scrolling speed is too slow to use the product. If you hold the down arrow to scroll the bible down for 10 seconds and release, the system remains sluggish for a long time, even trying to activate menus becomes painfully slow.
Then I removed the "Power Lookup Tab" and left the Guide linked to the bible tab. Most of the trouble was gone - scrolling and menus are still too slow for comfortable usage, but noticeably better.
So I removed the Guide and re-opened "Power Lookup." Again, if the Power Lookup spinner is spinning and I type in the command box at the top nothing happens for a long time. I can type a full sentence before the first letter shows up. Again, from where I sit it looks like a thread priority problem.
Next I let the system setting down and the CPU load is under 10% and Logos4 does not have focus. When you click on a menu item it comes up, but in general menus are, shall we say, less than crisp. In fact just clicking between "File" and "Guide" You can keep the CPU above 50%.
I also tried this: Just a bible open and "Cited By". Let the system settle down. Press PgDn in the bible, then click in the Command window and type. Again no response in the system. So that tool seems to have the same issue as "Power Lookup"
I hope this information helps!
Steve
