Slow score scrolling on 4K monitor. Hello, I’m on Dorico 4 and macOS (macMini 2018 - 32GB RAM - Montery 12.1) and I use a 4K monitor and a secondary HD monitor. Scrolling of the score is smooth on the 1080*1920 screen but much slower on the 4K monitor. I usually use scaling in the display settings.…

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OK I tested on a Windows laptop with an i7-8750H @ 2.2Ghz (6 cores), 32GB RAM and 8GB VRAM (GTX 1070 MaxQ) and it is smooth… hopefully I’ll upgrade my Mac to the latest silicon chip later this year… the MacMini 2018 is a no go in 4K.

Here sample videos of the problem. I’ve also installed Dorico 4 on Windows 10 (old i7-4770K 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti 8GB VRAM). On Windows the problem is worse compared to my Mac (which is very smooth on the HD screen). I have 3 monitors all attached to the Mac and the PC and I switch the i…

Please, anyone listening ? I’m software engineer I can help… the score is not buffered into a texture ? Those computers are capable of scrolling smoothly. It seems that draw loop is CPU bound… damn I cannot use the software I paid for…

Probably not helpful, but I and many other users have 4K monitors and Dorico is extremely responsive and smooth. Sorry. :man_shrugging:t2:

My 4K scrolling is smooth too, and I have two monitors with different orientations and aspect ratios.

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll try on a newer hardware

The specs of the 2018 Mini are for 3 displays at 4096 by 2304, so one 4K display should be well within tolerances. I’d check Activity Monitor’s GPU History window to see what the levels are there. If it’s at a low level, then it may be something else. I have a 2018 Mini with 32Gb RAM. I don’t have…

thank for info, I’m adapting my workflow and using the 1080 monitor for Dorico it will be OK until I get a new Mac. I don’t know how Dorico coded but maybe there is room for optimisation in the draw loop.

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Slow score scrolling on 4K monitor

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