very slow performance

[Johnny g]

I just installed graphics suite 12 sp1. I'm trying to use rave 3.0 and
am doing some simple tweening with a very simple file, just staight
lines. The performance is agonizingly slow. The playback shows a blank
screen and operates very slowly. It take 20 seconds just to recognize a
snap node on the drawing when I try to move and object. When I change to
a new time on the timeframe, it takes 15 seconds for the movie to
reappear. It takes 10 seconds to add a new kewframe. I am using windows
2000 and have 512Mb ram. I have 23Gb free disk space. The only other
application running is Norton antivirus, and zone alarm firewall. I
tried turning both of those applications off with no effect. I watch the
system performance window of windows task manager and the cpu usage goes
to 100% while performing these simple tasks. Any thoughts on how I can
resolve this problem?

Thanks

[Andrew Hurt]

I recently switched from a p3-733 w/512MB to a p4-2.8 w/1GB . . . prior, I
experienced a bit of lag performing actions while in RAVE, but nowhere near what
you describe.

Now I don't.

What helped me before was to work in Wireframe, selectively hide layers in which
I wasn't working, de-activate Onion Skin, and save the complex
fills/effects/etc. till the later stages of the project.
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