The point being: In Preferences, if 'Use multi-core audio rendering' and 'Use hyper-threading audio rendering' are unticked I get two DSP bars. If they're both ticked I get one bar.
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If I tick 'hyper-threading' only I get two bars, if I tick 'multi-core' only I get one bar.
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It jumps up one bar on both settings slightly now and then. There doesn't seem much noticeable difference with having both boxes ticked or only 'multi-core' ticked, therefore I don't know if the hyper-threading setting is doing much in this case. However, this confirms what Mattius said earlier for sure. I'm using an i5 quad core laptop, I think it's about 7 years old now.
It would be really helpful by the way, if the preferences window was always on top or perhaps had it's own taskbar tab.
It was time-consuming to keep minimizing the 3 separated windows all the time when testing.
This would also help when checking / unchecking the boxes to see what works best for individual songs!
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Here's a thought: The tool window always stays on top, so could the code that does that be put with the preferences window code?
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