Compass works just fine here.

An addendum to my former post where GE 4 would just zoom in most of the way to my default place and then lock up with a busy bee and I'd have to exit the program (at least I could do that!). I found that running it in directX mode solved that problem. Prior to discovering this I always ran GE prior versions in OpenGL mode with no problem.

Also, I do not find any 'slow down' in GE 4. It's as fast or maybe even faster than earlier versions were. I have a pretty standard HP media center with a 3 ghz processor, 1 GB of ram, and the standard 128MB ATI x300 video card.

I suspect that a lot of the people experiencing 'slowdowns' have a lot of 'fancy stuff' loaded like many overlays, vector stuff and the like.