Poor graphical performance of the GUI (Fixed!)

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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI

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Another review mentioning "poor retina display performance" which is OSX' verison of high-DPI screens:
https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/cher ... ge-modular

BTW, for now I worked around the problem by forcing my Surface Pro 4 to use lower resolution altogether (1500x1000 seems to be a sweet spot for me).
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The next Voltage Modular build 1.15 (not released yet) will support OpenGL accelerated hardware. There is a checkbox in the Interface section to enable/disable GPU acceleration. All I can say is wow, this is extremely fast, especially for those that are using high def displays such as Retina. (=

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It should be available in a week or two.
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That’s great! It’s ok on my MacBook Pro (15”, 2018, i7 2.3ghz, OSX Mojave) until I scroll down or up to see the next level of modules. Then it scrolls REAL SLOW. Otherwise, it’s pretty ok
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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI

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Cherry Garcia wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:53 pm The next Voltage Modular build 1.15 (not released yet) will support OpenGL accelerated hardware. There is a checkbox in the Interface section to enable/disable GPU acceleration. All I can say is wow, this is extremely fast, especially for those that are using high def displays such as Retina. (=


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It should be available in a week or two.
Just wow! <3
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Cherry Garcia wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:53 pmIt should be available in a week or two.
Any update on this? :)
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Coming soon - maybe tomorrow. (=

Of course, OpenGL support is one of those things that has to be tested really well. It is an option that will turn on by default if a high density/retina display is detected, as this is where the main slowdown has been. We've noticed that some graphics cards are not super-compatible with our opengl implementation and will actually work a bit slower, unfortunately as it is using a software implementation of OpenGL.
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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI (Fixed!)

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Dowload 1.21 or later here : https://store.cherryaudio.com/my/library

This new version adds OpenGL hardware acceleration!
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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI (Fixed!)

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Cherry Garcia wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:45 pm Dowload 1.21 or later here : https://store.cherryaudio.com/my/library

This new version adds OpenGL hardware acceleration!
Great. This version doesn't crash Cubase 10 when closing the project.
My music projects: https://soundcloud.com/jx3d
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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI (Fixed!)

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Bonus bug fix! (= There were other fixes and changes, as well.
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Re: Poor graphical performance of the GUI (Fixed!)

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The topic can be closed now! Thanks guys!!! <3
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