christoff Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Hi, I recently bought a new laptop and it is a fair bit faster than the 3 yo one it replaced and has plenty of ram so am a bit confused why FileMaker is running about 10 times slower. It's making life a little frustrating to say the least. Apart from the older laptop having a slower processor, the main differences bewtwen the 2 laptops are that the last one was XP and no Norton 360 and this new one is Vista with Norton...(I'm using the same FM on this one as the last one) I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to what may be the issue... cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genx Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 1) Make sure that Norton is not scanning any directories with your FileMaker files in them (not the program, but the actual database files). I personally despise Norton because in my experience it's a resource wh**e. I opt for Kaspersky instead, but it might not be your issue. 2) Post the Specs of your Laptop. Vista hogs a lot more resources than XP does and even if your laptop is "Made for Vista" it may only just reach that margin. I probably wouldn't run vista with anything under 4 gb of ram - run the performance information tool in control panel and see what score you got - particularly under process, ram and hard disk. 3) Hit Ctrl+shift+esc, go to processes and make sure that nothing is hogging excess memory. Common culprits are firefox which will sometimes go up to 300-400mb's and the windows desktop bar which will sometimes go to 500-800mb's. 4) If this is not a laptop that comes with a factory install (i.e. not Dell/HP/IBM etc), make sure you have installed all the up to date drivers for your motherboard etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genx Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Take a look at this as well: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83ec0ffe-ee04-4d53-8b87-25d1f05c954e1033.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoff Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 thanks for responding Genx, I did the ctrl-shift-esc...iexplorer was using 90 mb and FileMaker about 50, everything else was tiny. I will have to work out if Norton is scanning the actual database files. Toshiba Satellite notebook, from harvey norman RAM: 4 GB Processor: 585 @ 2.16 GHz 32 bit operating system and I got a score of 3.5 going by this info, do you think it's possible I don't have up to date drivers? I'll check out that link now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genx Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 and I got a score of 3.5 What were the sub scores in each of the categories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoff Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 It said Processor: 4.3 RAM: 4.9 Graphics: 3.5 Gaming Graphics: 3.5 Primary Hard Dsik: 5.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_vodka Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Are you still using version 8.5 on this new system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoff Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 FMP 8.5 is not Vista-compatible. You need FMP 9.0 or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoff Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 Oh dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdealData Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I thought 8.5v2 addressed the Vista problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoff Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 I just had a look, I have FMP 8.5 v1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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