Performance controls

You can quickly see whether the currently selected brush can take advantage of your system's multi-core processor (CPU), AVX2 extensions of the CPU, or graphics processor (GPU) technologies. You can also run the Brush Accelerator to evaluate your system and optimize application settings.

	Your system has been evaluated and application settings optimized, and the selected brush can take advantage of the technology.
	Your system has been evaluated and application settings optimized. The selected brush can take advantage of the technology, but your system is below the baseline requirements for it to do so.
	Your system has not been evaluated. To resolve issues, run the Brush Accelerator utility or enable GPU support. For more information, see Performance preferences.

You can disable your system's GPU for the currently selected brush, allowing you to experiment with performance settings.

The Performance panel also lets you know if your system's GPU has been disabled for all brushes or if the number of cores allocated to Painter is insufficient. For more information, see Performance preferences.

To disable GPU support for the currently selected brush

1 Choose Window Brush Control Panels Performance.

To evaluate your system and optimize application settings

1 Choose Window Brush Control Panels Performance.

2 Click the Brush Accelerator button .

If the Brush Accelerator utility has already been run, the button displays as .

You can also run the Brush Accelerator utility from the Welcome Screen (Help Welcome Screen).