diff --git a/content/en/docs/refguide/installation/performance-tips/_index.md b/content/en/docs/refguide/installation/performance-tips/_index.md index fea80aa05cd..dd66a83d039 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/refguide/installation/performance-tips/_index.md +++ b/content/en/docs/refguide/installation/performance-tips/_index.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Additionally, do not run your solution from a USB drive. Copy it to your hard-di In some exceptional cases, hardware acceleration can cause errors when rendering desktop applications. When this occurs, Mendix recommends enabling software rendering. -To do this, navigate to **Preferences** > **Work Environment** and select [Enable software rendering mode](/refguide/preferences-dialog/#rendering). Then, restart Studio Pro. After restarting, check if you notice improvements. If you do not notice improvements, it is preferable to turn this setting off. +To do this, navigate to **Preferences** > **Advanced** and select [Enable software rendering mode](/refguide/preferences-dialog/#rendering). Then, restart Studio Pro. After restarting, check if you notice improvements. If you do not notice improvements, it is preferable to turn this setting off. ### Parallels diff --git a/content/en/docs/refguide10/installation/performance-tips/_index.md b/content/en/docs/refguide10/installation/performance-tips/_index.md index 4c257120004..2858603b576 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/refguide10/installation/performance-tips/_index.md +++ b/content/en/docs/refguide10/installation/performance-tips/_index.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Additionally, do not run your solution from a USB drive. Copy it to your hard-di In some exceptional cases, hardware acceleration can cause errors when rendering desktop applications. When this occurs, Mendix recommends enabling software rendering. -To do this, navigate to **Preferences** > **Work Environment** and select [Enable software rendering mode](/refguide10/preferences-dialog/#rendering). Then, restart Studio Pro. After restarting, check if you notice improvements. If you do not notice improvements, it is preferable to turn this setting off. +To do this, navigate to **Preferences** > **Advanced** and select [Enable software rendering mode](/refguide10/preferences-dialog/#rendering). Then, restart Studio Pro. After restarting, check if you notice improvements. If you do not notice improvements, it is preferable to turn this setting off. ### Parallels diff --git a/content/en/docs/refguide10/modeling/menus/edit-menu/preferences-dialog.md b/content/en/docs/refguide10/modeling/menus/edit-menu/preferences-dialog.md index 8f357874a99..34f446fd73c 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/refguide10/modeling/menus/edit-menu/preferences-dialog.md +++ b/content/en/docs/refguide10/modeling/menus/edit-menu/preferences-dialog.md @@ -245,10 +245,6 @@ This option allows user to choose between Studio Pro themes: **Auto (System them This option sets the default page editor mode that your page opens in: **Structure mode** (the default) or **Design mode**. For more information on page editor modes, see the [Page Editor Modes](/refguide10/page/#page-editor-modes) section in *Page*. -### Rendering {#rendering} - -Hardware and driver issues may cause performance problems when running Studio Pro. These issues can appear in form of dialog boxes opening and closing much more slowly than expected, and general slowness of the UI. In case the hardware problems cannot be solved, it is possible to mitigate these issues by turning the **Enable software rendering mode** setting on. Enabling this setting requires a restart of Studio Pro to take effect. Running the application with this setting on may increase the CPU usage. - ### Language {#language} This option allows you to change the user interface language you work in while using Studio Pro. At this time, English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese (Beta) are supported. You must restart Studio Pro in order to use this feature. @@ -274,6 +270,12 @@ This setting allows you to move forward and backward through your editing histor ## Advanced Tab +### Rendering {#rendering} + +Hardware and driver issues may cause performance problems when running Studio Pro. These issues can appear in form of dialog boxes opening and closing much more slowly than expected, and general slowness of the UI. If case the hardware problems cannot be solved, it is possible to mitigate these issues by turning the **Enable software rendering mode** setting on. This option is available for Native UI and Web Content. For Web Content, you can select **Auto**, which enables software rendering mode automatically when running on Parallels or another virtual machine. + +Enabling this setting requires a restart of Studio Pro to take effect. Running the application with this setting on may increase the CPU usage. + ### Proxy Server Sometimes the computer running Studio Pro cannot access the internet directly, but has to connect to a proxy server that requires authentication. If this is the case, then these settings can be used to specify the user name and password to connect to the proxy server.