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Howdy! I love StimuWrite but I have a minor issue. When I ran StimuWrite on my old laptop it would get pretty hot and get the fan going, which I assumed was because my computer was a old piece of crap; but unfortunately, it does the same on my new one. On previous versions of the software I think it was suggested to turn off particle effects to help, but I'm not seeing that option on the latest version. Any assistance would be helpful because my laptop fan screaming for its life kills the writing vibe even with my soothing ocean sounds going. :(


Update: I'm not tech-savvy, but my friend who has been doing laptop maintenance for me, sent me the following: "One bit of good news is I think I know what specifically is causing the high load within the app.  Godot's documentation notes that to combat this high CPU load when using video like the animated Waves background, the developer should limit the Frames Per Second to 30, but when I ran it through an FPS counter, it showed StimuWrite is running at 60 FPS." StimuWrite does seem to get the laptop fan whirring faster when using the animated background, but they're honestly my favorite feature so I don't want to turn them off! Hope the extra info helps.

Hey, this is a great info, thank you so much. I'll give an option to limit the FPS on the next version.