Microsoft Report Viewer 2012 rending and speed issues - vb.net

I have a VB.Net application that has a reference to Microsoft report viewer.
I installed the Microsoft Report Viewer 2012 run time from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35747
I have added a reference to the dll installed and removed the previous dll in my project.
Now when i view reports it is very slow to render. It used to take 1 second for some reports and now it takes 30 seconds. Also the rendering is missing some text.

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Here's attached screenshot of Both Projects
RDL reports get installed in an instance of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) you then load the report into a ReportViewer control from that server. That's a subject too big to include in a single answer here and you should research it independently and then ask specific questions later if you have them.
If you want the reports to be part of your application itself then you need to create client reports - RDLC files - rather than server reports. There is a VS extension you can install for creating client reports, if that's what you want.

Microsoft Report Viewer Processing Object

Do i need to have Microsoft Report Viewer as part of my published program? I had created a program that was able to install on other computers but with my latest version there was an error upon install that Microsoft Report Viewer object 11 was not installed. I did not add a report viewer to my project at all and i am wondering if i can simply delete the Report Viewer from my resources??
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Crystal Reports & VBScript - Could Not Locate Automation Class

First off, I have very little Crystal Reports experience, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I had this "fantastic" work project dumped on me when a co-worker left, so I'm hoping someone can help as most of the Business Objects links I find that might have solutions just redirect to a generic SAP splash page.
So I have a few hundred Crystal Reports (mostly File Schema 10.2, although some are 8.5 or 12.0) that are stored on a server. All of them have an associated VBScript file that calls them in the following way:
Set AppCrystal = WScript.CreateObject("CrystalRuntime.Application.10")
Set CrystalReport = AppCrystal.OpenReport("<file path to report>")
Set CrystalOptions = CrystalReport.exportOptions
CrystalOptions.DestinationType = 1
CrystalOptions.FormatType = 36
CrystalOptions.DiskFileName = "<file path to output excel file>"
CrystalReport.Export False
According to BO, this should be correct. See the following links about the CR API:
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/businessobjectsxi/en/en/RDC_SDK/rdc_com_dg_doc/doc/rdcsdk_com_doc/RDC_ObjectModel62.html
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/businessobjectsxi/en/en/RDC_SDK/rdc_com_dg_doc/doc/rdcsdk_com_doc/RDC_ObjectModel151.html#1387900
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/businessobjectsxi/en/en/RDC_SDK/rdc_com_dg_doc/doc/rdcsdk_com_doc/RDC_ObjectModel8.html#1646326
So basically the script just executes the report and outputs it to an Excel file. This works great on the old server, but when I try to execute this script on the new server I get the following error:
I assume this is because there's some kind of runtime components I need to install, but I can't for the life of me figure out what. I found this page: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56787567
But none of the files I've tried to download have worked, and, frankly, I've found SAPs documentation to be sub-par in this area. I do have Crystal Reports 2008 available, so if I need to update the vbscript to use CrystalRuntime.Application.12 or something and then install the newest runtime files for Crystal Reports 2008 on the server, that'd be fine. But I still need to know what runtime files to use? Nothing I can find has worked. Help?
Apparently this type of call to a Crystal report uses the RDC Report Engine, unfortunately CR 10 is no longer available. You can still get CR XI R2 which still deployed the RDC and it's version 11.5.
There is no RDC in CR 2008, it was actually deprecated in CR 9 and now no longer shipped.
Only other option you have is to convert your app to use Visual Studio .NET and use one of the current CR 2008 or CR for VS 2010 components and rewrite your app to .NET Framework.
No more VB Scripting supported, but that was just the Dev Language...
I ended up just upgrading to CR 2008, and using .NET console projects to replace the VB scripts.

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What new report controls were added in SQL server 2012?
The new version of SSRS in 2011 is going under the name “Project Crescent” and looks really good. Here is a link to a preview
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2010/11/09/a-glimpse-at-project-crescent.aspx
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