I’m testing out Scrivener for Windows during NaNo, I downloaded it today.
I went to copy the entirety of the novel so far (7860 words to be exact) and copied into a new file, under the first chapter, into the first scene.
The program froze and refused to work for roughly five minutes.
The program then resumed working, and I went to edit the text, to double space it and change the font size.
I selected the entire text and changed the font to size 12, and again the program froze, this time for about two minutes.
I decided not to try and mess with the double spacing and went instead to start typing, and the program froze again, taking a little more than a minute before showing what I’d typed. I had only typed a few words.
More or less, the program freezes, a lot, if you are trying to work on a large hunk of text.
I’ve upload a flash swf file movie which you can open in a browser with Flash support. The movie clearly shows my Windows 7, i7 64 bit (4GB Ram) laptop running 74,607 words or 394,787 characters in a single text view with no visible lag - even on full scroll. At the same time I had Firefox, Thunderbird, Notepad, Scrivener Beta 1.3 and Jing screen recording software running.lag.swf (2.08 MB)
What I think is the problem is that you are running an early beta. The current version is beta 1.3. Go to the help menu and see if you can see an item named ‘About Scrivener’. If you can’t then you are running an earlier version which does have a lag issue that was well documented in this forum. You will notice a download page in the announcement section of this forum for the latest beta.