I can confirm that using Gretl with Zoom can be complicated (you cannot open multiple windows, options may freeze, etc.). The problem is that Zoom is very usable, but not very sophisticated: it simply eats all available RAM and CPU power, have a look at the Task manager and you will see. what I mean. As a workaround You can try assigning a high priority to Gretl from Windows Task manager (Details > right click > set priority), but still under other programs like MS Teams things seem to work much better. good luck Stefano -- _________________________________________________________________________ Stefano Fachin Professore Ordinario di Statistica Economica Dip. di Scienze Statistiche Università di Roma "La Sapienza" P.le A. Moro 5 - 00185 Roma - Italia Tel. +39-06-49910834 fax +39-06-49910072 web http://stefanofachin.site.uniroma1.it/ -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. -- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Periklis Gogas wrote: > But it used to run smoothly on my old laptop... Are you running the same Zoom version on both machines? Is the Windows version the same? And, you're not using a virtual background in Zoom, are you? I don't see how this could possibly be a gretl issue. Something is messing with the resources available to gretl and/or intercepting and distorting communications between gretl and the OS. To my knowledge there's no way to defend against that. Unless, perhaps, we knew exactly what's going on, but we're not going to know that with Zoom. I think you'd find that Zoom and gretl co-exist very nicely if you were to run Linux. At least, that's my experience. (But you have to share your entire desktop to get multiple gretl windows to appear in the share.) Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Periklis Gogas wrote: > But it used to run smoothly on my old laptop... Are you running the same Zoom version on both machines? Is the Windows version the same? And, you're not using a virtual background in Zoom, are you?

I don't see how this could possibly be a gretl issue. Something is messing with the resources available to gretl and/or intercepting and distorting communications between gretl and the OS. To my knowledge there's no way to defend against that. Unless, perhaps, we knew exactly what's going on, but we're not going to know that with Zoom.

I think you'd find that Zoom and gretl co-exist very nicely if you were to run Linux. At least, that's my experience. (But you have to share your entire desktop to get multiple gretl windows to appear in the share.) Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/

On poor performance when sharing gretl over Zoom: it might be worth experimenting with the Zoom frame-rate. Under Zoom's "Settings/General" there should be an option "Limit your screen share to N frames per second". I've seen a recommendation that you can take N down to 4 and still have an acceptable look while limiting Zoom's CPU usage. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/