Robohelp is crashing/v. slow, does it have a memory/topic limit?

I have previously been using Robohelp 8 and have just upgraded to version 9. I found that my version 8 would often crash and most of the time I would have to force the program to close as I couldn't do anything.
I also kept on receiving an error saying out of memory when I was trying to edit topics within the project.
I just upgraded to version 9 as I also upgraded my pc to windows 7 64bit so wanted a version of robohelp that was compatible with this. I was also hoping this would help with the regular crashes. However, as I was upgrading my project, it hovered on not responding for around 15mins and I wasn't able to do anything.
My project has over 6000 topics most with multiple images in them.
I think that it is crashing as it is a 32bit software and is therefore reaching its memory limit as I have such a large number of topics. Is this correct? Does it come as a 64bit version seeing as it is compatible with 64bit (this is what I was hoping for when I upgraded)?

RoboHelp 9 is designed to work on a 64 bit system. It sounds to me as if the problem is more related to the size your project both in terms of the number of topics and the number of imaqes. I had some large projects and have found that after say four or five thousand topics, performance can tail off. A partial solution is to regularly delete the CPD file but probably the time has come to split the project and create merged help. Done properly your users will not be aware of it and you will have smaller projects.
I went through this with someone else and after they split a project with fewer topics but many thousands of images, they found things worked as expected.
I haven't seen anyone report an Out of Memory problem which makes me wonder if there is some other factor at play. You may get a Memory Exception message but that is usually related to have imported output files into RoboHelp without cleaning them up. The sign of that is red squares in the topics.
Is your project on your local drive? Have you tried doing some work on one of the supplied sample projects to see if that works OK.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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