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Has anyone experienced performance problems with the Mac 5.05 version?

I was working on a mindmap with only about 75 simple nodes and the performance dropped significantly. Writing notes showed the biggest problem. When typing, I was able to get seconds (15-20+) ahead of the program. The program also used 100% of the cpu. The hardware is a new 2.4GHz Mac Book Pro with 4GB of memory.

Restarting the application appears to restore performance for a few entries, but then it collapsed again.

I have tried the same map on a second machine, a Mac Pro (3.0GHz with 4GB RAM) and still experience the extreme slowness.

I have tried creating another map with just 38 nodes and the performance really begins to degrade. Taking a note for a node is a real trial of patience. The map is attached.

Bottom line, the software is unusable at its current performance level.

Is CS Odessa working on improving the performance? When can we expect an improved version?

I can only confirm the experience. Compared to v.4.5, v5.0.5 is really slow in all parts of my usage so far (brainstorming, sorting the nodes, then reaaranging them, adding callouts, etc. but I didn't get as far as formatting, as I ran out of patience). My map wasn't half the size of fharvell's.

I guess I will go back to using v4.5 until there's a usable improvement - hopefully soon, as I've just invested in both MINDMAP and PROJECT and want to use them!

By the way: PowerBook G4, 867MHz, 640MB RAM, OS 10.4.10.

fharvell Wrote:Is CS Odessa working on improving the performance? When can we expect an improved version?

We are working on a performance issues right now. The problem with text notes has been fixed (we haven't published this fix yet), but there are still several problems with overall application performance.
We've scheduled an update at 2nd of October that will contain bug fixes, performance and usability improvements.

Performance issue have been fixed.

AlexTG Wrote:Performance issue have been fixed.

Does this mean we need to download an updated version??

Thanks...

Yes :)

When will the update available for download?

AlexTG Wrote:Yes :)

Yesterday we released ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5.1. The update is available for download here.

AlexTG Wrote:Yesterday we released ConceptDraw MINDMAP 5.1. The update is available for download here.

MUCH improved response time with v5.1, links to Project now work. Great update. Thanks!!!

Eric