Roon 1.8 use a lot of GPU when the animation icon of playing can be seen

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

It has been reported before. See my post from 2020

macOS Catalina interface laggy randomly while running Roon (High GPU usage randomly, Roon idle 20% GPU, sometimes up to 99% usage) [Resolved in Roon 1.8]

Hi Nepherte, FYI: the Blue Bars causing a GPU usage spike isn’t new and isn’t limited to macOS. There have been posts about this before. Here is an HTPC NUC playing Roon client: Win 10 NUC with Iris Pro graphics 5200. Not playing anything, Notice gpu is ~5% [nothing_playing] I start something playing with only the bottom track bar playing animation at the bottom of the page. It increases it to ~ 12% usage: [just the play animation on the bottom] Still not, bad, however, the moment I …