i have pentium on both pc/laptop, i notice that last few release make fdm use 100% of cpu usage when fdm querying info & installing update.
my concern is while fdm use 100% cpu, it doesnt really make any difference from before it use that much.
installing update is still slow i rather just clean install rather than auto updating now.
querying info is fine though, it instant from pretty much everywhere except youtube, youtube take 5-7 second before it done.
the problem is when it update.

sorry to say that i already mentioned it few months back and the devs said upgrade your pc. then i uninstalled FDM 6.x and tried FDM 3.x for some months when if stopped capturing downloaded i developed one by myself and using it now.

Hello,

Recently we've enabled software-only rendering on some configurations (to prevent random crashes).

It seems that FDM has detected that your system can be potentially not enough stable for its normal work, so it has enabled software-only mode.

In this mode FDM uses only your CPU to render its interface. That's why it can consume more resources from your CPU.

In case you need it, we can think of some option which will allow you to forcibly turn off this software-only mode.

hmm...i guess i will stick with clean install every version...

you guys already do so much, i do find fdm randomly crashing, earlier last year. there hasnt been any crash too so far for last 3-5 month.

tq for your hardwork tho

Alex wrote:In case you need it, we can think of some option which will allow you to forcibly turn off this software-only mode.

There should be an obvious option "Use hardware acceleration", I think.

Until a working fix is developed to force enable / force disable 'software only' mode - is there a way to manually check this right now?

johnlgalt wrote:is there a way to manually check this right now?

Hello,
Sorry, there is no way for now.
In the next update it should be possible to use QT_OPENGL environment variable.

Awesome, thank you, Alex.