Performance

Go to File – Settings – Performance to control the behavior of the application with respect to performance.

OPTION	DESCRIPTION
Enable direct composition mode	Uses Windows DirectComposition for faster, hardware-accelerated UI rendering.
Enable redirection surface composition mode	Renders offscreen first to prevent tearing and glitches.
Enable WinUI composition mode	Leverages modern Windows UI features for smoother transitions and animations.

OPTION	DESCRIPTION
Disable all Gravatar images	Disable all Gravatar images to improve application performance.
Disable custom images	Disable the loading of any custom images in the tree view. Too many custom images could dramatically increase the size of the data source and increase the load time at the same time.
Disable favicon cache	Disable the favicon cache and force Remote Desktop Manager Windows to always fetch the favicon from the web. It is not recommended to disable this feature for performance reasons.
Disable Gravatar images in user management	Disable fetching the Gravatar in Administration – Users to improve application performance.

OPTION	DESCRIPTION
Offline engine	Select which offline engine is used when Remote Desktop Manager is running without an internet connection.
Hardware acceleration	Select in the drop-down list how Remote Desktop Manager will handle hardware acceleration: Default (Automatic): Graphics rendering is completely left to the operating system. Disabled (GDI+): Hardware acceleration is forced disabled. DirectX: Hardware acceleration is forced enabled. The graphics rendering is performed by the graphics card. Performance is sped up in some cases, which is often required for high resolutions. This setting does not need to be modified unless there are UI performance issues.
Optimize UI Performance	Optimize the user interface for better performances.
Opened connections tree refresh delay	Set the refresh delay for the opened connection tree.