It shouldn't really - as the 2D (desktop application) performance of most any video card these days is off most of the old scales - most benchmarks hardly even test the 2D performance anymore since all it seems anyone wants a high end video card for is 3D gaming. There are a lot of factors that could contribute to these issues - like driver versions, what other programs you might have running (bottom line, how much of that 512MB is free), disk I/O (instantiating each copy of the .OCX), etc. I can't say I have any app with forms loaded with OCX controls, but I do have one with a 6 page form with most pages having 12-15 controls on them, even even on my poor PII-266 laptop with 65MB RAM and XP Pro there's no real delay in displaying that form, it just pops right up. Definitely not so slow that I can see it working.

Randy

>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