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Hey YuckFou157,

I have the same MacBook Pro you have and in my previous post I had the following results:

Model: MacBookPro laptop, Late 2013
OS: Mac OSX 10.9.4
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Harddisk: APPLE 1TB SSD
CPU: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Resolume: 4.1.11

Setup: laptop as control monitor, 1 fullscreen output at 1920x1080 on HDMI output

Benchmarks 1920x1080
Clean: 13 layers
Noise: 10 layers

so I ran the benchmark again after I read your results and for some reason, I'm now getting the same 8/8 layers you're getting! I'm not sure what happened but despite all my efforts I couldn't replicate the 13/10 layers.

Then I tried the same test after disabling the global effects and blend modes and my results spiked up to 14/13 which is a drastic improvement!

Resolume Team: It'd be great if there was a way to get another option in the global effects and blend modes that would give access to the basic modes only (alpha, add, multiply, difference, screen for instance ) or let us choose what blend modes we want to turn on, if that could give us access to increased performance.

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Good idea, but that's not how it works.

Disabling blend modes gives a performance increase because Resolume can skip the blending all together. The moment you bring back even a single blend mode, you're back to where you were when all of them were enabled.

Thanks Joris, I figured it would be the case but the difference in performance is so drastic that it was worth a try!

I use Resolume Arena as a switch on many projects where I can disable the global effects and blend modes and it works like a charm. For instance I'm working on one at the moment that is 3840x1080 where I'm getting the output from a super computer using two BMD DVI extenders ], a BMD deck link duo, aand two XFX Double D R9 270X 1050M in Xfire and I'm getting above 60FPS (sometimes upward of 80FPS).