Microsoft Visio 2003 Forum

Hi,

I moved this query from the unsupported apps forum:

Has anyone tried using Visio 2003 with Crossover ?
I have found that Crossover has a major problem which effectively makes it useless for Visio 2003.

If I draw a large (filled in) rectangle on the page - say covering 2/3 of the page size, selecting the object takes many seconds. Actually you can see the green line slowly and progressively draw round the perimeter of the object over several seconds, and only when it has completed can you then move the object, or do anything else with it. Smaller objects can be selected much more quickly. This makes it totally useless.

This doesn't happen when Visio is run under Windows. I am using a 3GHz C2D iMac and Snow Leopard, and have tried running the same app under XP Pro using VirtualBox, and it behaves normally.

Has anyone else noticed this bug, and is there anything that can be done about it ?

Regards,
Chris.

I have seen this before on linux. On my last work workstation I noticed the speed was too slow to use it. I gather some kind of acceleration is not available in the video layer so visio (or crossover) starts writing large areas as individual pixels which is far far slower than using hardware acceleration. Im just setting up a new machine, which is fedora linux 12 with crossover pro 9.0.0, on a 3 display nvidia 8400 graphics cards and quad core processor, and visio 2003 is now usable, but looking at the cpu usage meter its still eating a lot more cpu cycles than it should.