JRogCPA

I downloaded 12.5 at what must have been an off-peak time. I'd already rolled over all 2011 retrurns (using the first version). The program runs very slowly. A fully-loaded, complex federal and state individual client in 2011 takes 17 seconds to load. The same client file, which is "empty" and missing most of the state forms, takes more than three minutes to load. At this rate, I'll be lucky to finish before November. I don't fault ATX for all the idiocy from the furballs in Congress. Does anyone know what happened that made 2012's speed such a disaster? All the pretty colors? The other so-called enhancements? The 2011 program worked so well. I suspect I'm not alone in wishing that the ATX gurus had simply kept the 2011 architecture.

JKLCPA expressed it very well. I don't have as long with ATX, but I have to admit to being incredulous that a perfectly good program in 2011 and earlier years could be so thoroughly butchered for 2012. Does anyone know what happened (not that I'd understand programming specifics.....)? An average "full," fairly complex federal and state return account from 2011 opens in 17 seconds. That same client's empty 2012 rolled-over file takes more than 3 minutes. If this isn't fixed, I'll never be able to finish in a timely way. The so-called improvements---the pretty colors, allegedly changeable letter templates, form print ordering, etc.---are totally worthless to me (and others?) if they come at a cost of such radical speed performance degradation. I don't fault ATX at all for the inexcusable nonsense from Washington. I have to think that all the software companies are in the same buffetted boat. I wouldn't care if ATX simply populated the program with their own best guess of 2012 forms suitably watermarked, but to launch the product to us when it has such radical performance problems---something any beta tester would have picked up immediately---makes me wonder if ATX is even remotely concerned about its own future. I'm not one for drama or artificial anxiety, but I admit to significant apprehension and wonder if I'm being unreasonable or off base.