Layer Routing and GPU Load

[rorycowell]

Hey everyone,
I’m Rory, from Oregon. I’ve been using Resolume Arena 7.18 for the past few months on a small touring setup. I’ve run into something I can’t quite figure out, and I’m hoping someone here has dealt with it before. I’m building a show where two of my layers alternate content based on OSC triggers. The content switches fine, but I’m noticing that even when a layer is fully hidden, my GPU load barely drops. It feels like both layers are still rendering despite only one being active at any moment.
Is this expected behavior with how Resolume handles layer visibility, or is there a smarter way to structure my composition so unused layers aren’t chewing up resources? I’m trying to squeeze a bit more headroom out of a 3070 laptop GPU for some heavier Wire patches running on top.