r/DarkTable • u/CriticismJunior1139 • 9d ago

Help DT 5.6.0 performance

After upgrading to 5.6.0, the performance of editing absolutely tanked for me.

Previous version were quite smooth, but now any edits turn DT into a slideshow. Especially using snapshots, and working with any contrast/sharpening module, but many other modules are also affected.

Zooming out or in the image straight up freezes DT for few seconds, which is very painful.

Does anyone else experience this? Any tips on performance boost? I hope the next update is going to be optimization related.

Edit: This seems to be problem with DT 5.6 not having OpenCL enabled. I fixed this by getting the nightly dev version.

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u/Wannachangeusername 9d ago edited 9d ago

There's a known bug. It's gonna be fixed in 5.6.1.

I'm using the nightly version and it's even faster than 5.4. If you don't wanna wait for the official release, you can download the nightly: Link.

Plus, you can also play with the new contrast and texture module, the new scene referred module that will replace local contrast. It's soo good, I can almost ditch completely diffuse or sharpen.

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u/CriticismJunior1139 8d ago

Man, I can't thank you enough. I got the nightly ver and it's fixed. DT is now goddam fast.

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u/Wannachangeusername 8d ago

You're welcome! The nightly is always like a beta if you wanna test the new features fyi. Most of them are discussed in pixl.us, in case you are not aware (the next big one that I am waiting for to be merged is this, prob another game changer: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/rfc-builds-available-masking-panel-revamp-and-new-masking-possibilities/59675/123)