Why is Designer Pro 11 so slow?

[Acorn]

I had a laptop with 4GB and W7 just about coped. I had to close lots of apps to get Xara to generate and publish.
Much less trouble with 8GB and W10.

Open Task Manager and watch the available Memory plummet.
A 109-page document will burn a lot of memory.

Acorn

[Theo]

Thanks both.

I will shut down every other application before working on the site in future.

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[UnmeteredIIS]

OP,

your lack of memory prob leads to disk caching...
hence memory being written to and from disk as needed.

my advice to you is to install a SSD drive...
it won't prevent reads and writes, but they will be as a
minimum 10x faster.

hope this advice helps

[Acorn]

OP,

your lack of memory prob leads to disk caching...
hence memory being written to and from disk as needed.

my advice to you is to install a SSD drive...
it won't prevent reads and writes, but they will be as a
minimum 10x faster.

hope this advice helps

Still go for a RAM upgrade first though.

Do check your memory usage with Task manager to convince yourself that you need to do anything,
Acorn

P.S. that said, I've just spend £50 (cheap) on a 240GB SSD for my laptop as it is already at its limit of 8GB RAM.

[Theo]

I have just used the rather excellent task manager in W10 to watch the memory usage. I set XDP to upload the file snf noticed that the memory usage never went above 86%. Does that not leave enough spare so that there will be no disc cacheing?