StarOffice too SLOW with presentations

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Well, I tried hard, but StarOffice just can't handle my big
> powerpoint presentations which have three dozen 1 meg or
> more digital images. I increased the memory to 256 megs,
> and about 2 megs per inserted object, and allowed 50
> objects. The cache memory can't be made bigger than 256
> megs. Maybe SO is supposed to not be a resource hog on a
> multiuser system. This may be a mistake. Nothing helped. It
> was so slow in the slide view mode it was unusable. It
> took many minutes to paint one page of slides. Not only
> was it slow but it didn't seem to cache anything, so
> every movement of slides took a LONG time to redraw the
> screen. This is running on a one gig Duron chip with 630
> megs of memory. Powerpoint has no trouble with these files
> with a gig centrino chip (equivalent to a 2 gig Pentium)
> with a lot less memory.
>
> If someone knows how to tweak SO so it can handle this
> sort of situation, I'd like to hear about it.

OpenOffice has no such limitation, plus its free.