Comment 4 for bug 1431168

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Owen Williams (ywwg) wrote :

I don't think we start a trend of including popups on first-start. Should we also warn users about rubberband? Certain GL configurations? accidentally unplugging usb devices? Also experience shows that people don't really read paragraphs of text like that, they'd most likely see "welcome to mixxx! blah blah blah" and then click OK. At best, we could put something in the manual for users of low-end machines.

I think in the end the DJ has a certain amount of responsibility to know their system and tracks, and discovering "ok my computer is too slow to analyze on the fly" is one of those things. (Although I'm surprised, because analysis is very lightweight and low-priority these days, what CPU and latency are you using?) Those bottlenecks may be different for everyone depending on graphics cards or system speed, and I don't think we can predict every situation.

Rather than work on this text or preference I'd prefer to figure out why it's stuttering on your system and fix it (probably your latency is just a little too aggressive). I've tried mixxx on a really old thinkpad T43 and it had no trouble at all.