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Horrible upgrade to a good product...
I just installed 3D Home Architect Deluxe and I want to warn anyone else from buying this product. It is a worthless upgrade and I have actually chosen to downgrade back to 3DHA version 3. First of all, the new functionality provided in this product is nothing to write home about. There are more plans, and a copule of new visualization modes, but other than that, it's the same product. The big problem is that the 3D mode is INCREDIBLY SSLOOOW. The programmers of this product obviously failed linear alegebra miserably as it can takes 15 seconds to paint the 3D screens on a Pentium III-500Mhz machine, regardless of the options. It's much worse than version 3. So bad in fact that it makes the 3D view totally useless for editing (one of the features I found very useful in the previous product). The final reason to avoid this product is stability. In the 20 minutes that I used the product it crashed on me at least 5 times.
I purchased this product based on the recomendations on amazon. However, after using it myself, I'm convinced that the recomendations were probably posted by marketing staff and not actual users.
If you're buying this product for the first time buy version 3. If you're upgrading, save your money and don't.
Tim
May 2001 · Software · verified purchase