Audacity Forum

Thanks Bill! My 5K iMac is also 30-Bit as is my second screen. I tried the trick to open in low resolution and while it's not "normal" levels of snappy performance, it looks very usable. I have a multi-hour edit job today and will see how it goes.

Thank you for the work-around!

Installed 2.4.1 and the very laggy performance is still there, consistent with Masterl1nk's observations. Did a clean reboot with Audacity as the first program open, etc. No change.

Ahh, OK! I was afraid I might not have seen it.

I haven't tried 2.4.1 but based on Masterl1nk's comment earlier, it looks like the issue remains in 2.4.1. The performance on my machine is the same as what his video shows.

Also, the Mac page shows 2.4.1 as the latest release on 20 May. Is 2.4.2 now available?

Steve, do you know if 2.4.2 addresses this issue?

Unfortunately still the case here as well.

Also still struggling with it here. I moved to Catalina and having the same issues with 2.3.3. OS level had no impact (positive or negative) on the performance.

Mac OS handles it and appears to scale the menus to usable levels. I'm not aware of an option to adjust this (other than through Accessibility panel) and it didn't change between 2.3.0 and 2.3.2.

Clean/fresh reboot into primary monitor only (external disconnected) - Same behavior. Good performance on a tiny window, super sluggish as window stretches larger. Snapping into "full screen" makes it another step worse. Some other observations: Same performance whether single track or multiple. My ...

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:06 pm

Any difference if you reboot with only one monitor powered on?

Have not tried that, will test tonight.