<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2009, at 09:22 AM, Dieter Welnowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 10px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">I don’t know why but AP is now very slow. You know, I have two planes with about 1600 objects and about 3000 DSS-Images. I could one open in earlier versions but not any more in V2.0b31. My second plan opens in V2.0b31 but very very slow. Do I have too much objects and images in my plan? My images are sorted in Rec.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">On the other hand, I have a plan with all Messier objects and this plan is very slow too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">In the previous versions all my plans run good quick.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Well I just tried AP 2.0b32 on both Mac OS X (2.6GHz Core 2 Duo + 4GB RAM) and WinXP (Same CPU, 1.2GB RAM) with a plan open containing the entire NGC catalogue (7840 objects), Fast visibility update and Highlighting on. Both OSes reported AP using c. 16% of CPU time. If you change the Visibility update rate to "Manual" it drops to about 2%.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's see if your problem goes away with 2.0b32.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div></body></html>