Hello,
I am digging out this post because I am encountering the same issue and perhaps my investigation could help to find an issue:
- previously, I was using a labtop (i5 - 16Mb RAM - SSD - GeForce 1050)
- yesterday i installed a workstation : AMD 5900x - 64Mb RAM - SSD PCI4.0 ... and a GeForce 710 !! there are no graphic card on the market for the moment
Both are installed with Windows Pro. I have the exact same issue with my new workstation : a very annoying "lag" of the mouse cursor when it goes over an image. I tried to deactivate V Sync and game mode, it did nothing
I looked at the GPU load with the task manager (the 3D tab).
With my "high end configuration" and a "low end" graphic cards:
- PI open, a .xisf file open, mouse is not moving : the GPU load is at 0%
- PI open, a .xisf file is open, mouse is moving in PI but is not on the image : load of the GPU is at 80% (!!)
- PI open, a .xisf file is open, mouse is moving over the image : the lag phenomenon is visible (and very annoying !) and the GPU load is 100%
I attached the print screen, when I move again the mouse outside the image, the load goes back to 80% and to zero when the mouse is not moving, again 100% when I move in the image :
This is with a 710 graphics card. If I do the same with my labtop and its 1050 graphic card:
- load 0% when mouse is not moving
- load 0% (or a barely visible u) when mouse is moving around the image
- load 20% when mouse is moving over the image
Here follows the same print, a labtop with 1050 graphics cards:
So my conclusion, perhaps I am wrong, is that this is a phenomenon which always exists but which is not always visible, it appears when the GPU is overloaded.
Knowing that, I tried to deactivated all the various option of 3D display without success:
- either in Nvidia control panel - 3D parameters
- either in PI parameters: even if it says this is not available yet, I tried de-activated the "CUDA" options in "parallel processing thread" tab
I hope that with that, perhaps you can help us who are concern
@Juan Conejero : is there a specific option to disable that will help us ?
Clearly my current configuration is not balanced : an AMD 5900x next to a GeForce 710 is strange but I have enough processing power.
Knowing that this appears from a known software release, perhaps you know that this release correspond to a development where you transfered a part of the load to the graphic card ?
[EDIT : please see after, this is NOT a PixInsight related issue. It is a general issue where mouse cursor deplacement may overload the GPU. The next post describ a work around to reduce significantly the GPU load, even with a low end graphic card]
Thanks for your help, there won't be any graphics cards available in the coming months and this "lag" is very, very annoying
Thanks
Jean-Baptiste