At present speeds I don't know, but from your observation I'd say yes. You might not need to go to the top to get better performance though.

Here's my little experience on the matter...

I had 2 machines side by side - a Pentium 90, 32meg, very average video card and a 486-66, 32meg with a great (at the time) ATI video card.
My son argued that a Pentium would always beat a 486-66, so I showed him otherwise.
I started up word 95 on each and opened an identical document on each. Then we each placed the mouse pointer near the bottom of the vertical scroll bars. On the count of 3 we both clicked 5 times (he had the Pentium).
Mine was done and I had lit a cigarette before his finally finished the scroll! He was convinced. Mind you, since then he has bought just about every video card upgrade made, just to be on top.

cheers

>Does a high performance video card, such as the ones used for gaming with lots of memory improve performance of desktop applications written in VFP?. The machine I develop on is a dell Pent III 1.0 Ghz, 512 RAM, windows XP Pro with a pretty standard video card, I don't even know how much memory it has. I have been working on a form that has a pageframe with 3 pages and each page has a dozen bblistview.ocx controls, between 1 and 10 textboxes and several dozen lines that seperate the page. When I run the app and that form on my machine, you can see it "working".
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>Now if I run the program from my lap top which is a Sony vaio Pent III 750, 256 RAM, windows XP Pro, can can hardly see the loading of the controls.
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>Just wondering if that may be the video card difference.
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>Kirk