I haven't experienced that time of behavior with FDE.  Even with reports with many columns and that utilize dimension and account pyramids I can't recollect the data taking more than a couple of minutes at most to render.  

Hi,

I would suggest contacting your Sage business partner for assistance in troubleshooting your performance issue or your local support team. You can also check out the Sage knowledgebase article: How to troubleshoot slow performance for Sage X3.