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Date/Time: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:48:57 +0000
Post From: Comments and Concerns for 2026 Linux Direction - Users and Devs Need Better Communication
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| User677437 - Posts: 95 |
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Tony, yes I've read that. But honestly I'm not optimistic with any future Windows versions. There are still people rocking versions from 2600 or older. Right now, week after week people are posting that their built out chartbooks are freezing with cursor movement and it unfreezes with no movement and all the data fills in, and it's this run around game of Turn OS timers OFF or ON, Turn OpenGL On or Off, or just rollback versions, or just do more performancing tuning, maybe think about comprimising price readability between higher and lower timeframe and put charts that need to be on 1 instance into 2 instances making things less intuitive because global cursor crosshair doesn't work between 2 instances and never will, or just give in and go back to Windows 7. The few of us that are trying, that have done videos, we don't get any insight as to what could be done further on our end. We feel like mad scientists. Beta Testers that don't know we are beta testers, that just have this forum to communicate with developers to resolve our madness. I'd be more optimistic for Sierra on Linux, because there are some very real performance gains to be had in general with linux and probably runs better for built out chartbook users. I use atleast several gbs of ram for Sierra of 64gb. But Linux has some problems with multi-monitor support, it had problems with graphic drivers idk now. To be entirely fair - In heavy gb of ram chartbooks - If price didn't freeze with cursor movements and charts were buttery smooth with OS Timer ON and OpenGL ON- There would be very literal enthusiasm from me for any latency/performance gains because it would already be perfect. But no one can find the attainable holy grail settings yet and we all feel like we are chipping away at this problem alone. A community would be nice. Not that free discord with some french guy calling himself darknoise IYKYK. I even added Sierra Chart to the Nvidia Control Panel to see if configuring any OpenGL settings would help. Like it's insanely tedious that the options are glitchy cursor movement and chart dragging every 5 seconds for .5 second glitch with OS Timer OFF, vs OS Timer ON - and charts are buttery smooth cursor and crosshair doesn't glitch for a .5 second - but it freezes the datafeed and as soon as cursor movement stops - all the data and current price gets updated 100% correct. It's not a datafeed issue. It never was. It's sometype of bottleneck happening from the User side that bottlenecks the data feed / server side. And we've been gaslight to no end on this. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-01-05 13:13:23
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