E17 User Guide/Performance

E17 is highly scalable. Even with all its graphical effects and animations, it tries to be conservative when it comes to resource usage. There are several ways to tweak performance though.

If you have some extra RAM, you may want to increase the E17 font and image caches. This helps reduce swapping, for example if you switch backgrounds often.

Another setting you might want to change is the framerate in which the background layer is rendered.

When configuring Performance Settings in Basic Mode, you will see a screen similar to this:

When configuring Performance Settings in Advanced Mode, you will see a screen similar to this: