Cross hair lagging when moving within charts

[TraderYoda]

This may be of help....

This is the link to AMD site showing the technical specs of my AMD_Radeon_HD_8970M_GPU.

https://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/notebook/8900m

and

my specific model:

https://www.amd.com/Documents/AMD_Radeon_HD_8970M_GPU_Specs.pdf

[TraderYoda]

Which laptop GPU is recommended for a laptop

Following on from my previous post, what would you suggest the minimum spec should be for a laptop GPU that would ''cope'' with ninjatrader 8 without any issues?

[TraderYoda]

Slow Redraw Of Crosshair Cursor in NT8

Good day,

I am having the same problem. I have read numerous posts on the forum about this issue but I haven't come across a solution yet?

I have a laptop that does not have a discrete video card as I understand laptops don't generally come with a separate GPU like desktops do?

I have the following setup:

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz)

16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)

AMD® Radeon® R9 M290X - 4GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

My knowledge of computers is intermediate to advanced but my understanding of the intrinsic details of GPUs is very limited. I don't do intense video editing, use CAD or play games so I thought the AMD Radeon GPU would be more than enough!

I assumed my setup would be able to handle a simple task of the cross hair operation? Although I have read other posts that say it is not as simple as that?

I have 2 additional monitors (HANNS.G - HX193) added to my laptop which run at 1280 x 1024. My laptop display runs at 1920 X 1080

My on-board GPU is Intel HD Graphics 4600 which is set to Maximum Performance

For my AMD® Radeon® R9 M290X, I have set Ninjatrader 8 application under "Switchable Graphics Application Settings" to "High Performance"

This seems to have helped but still not good enough for global crosshair use which I use a lot.

Is there a fix on your side or do the many uses experiencing this issue need to upgrade their GPU's?

Appreciate your assistance

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Thanks for posting.

Can you let me know what CPU, graphics card and memory you have on your PC? The crosshair in NT8 is influenced by the strength of the graphics card which is why I ask.

Can you also provide a screenshot of your chart setup so I could see what kinda of setup you are on? To confirm this is the regular crosshair and not the global crosshair correct?

Finally -> Can you please right click on the chart and select properties and then in the Crosshair property expand that and enable the 'Draw cursor only' mode. Do you see any difference in performance?

-Brett

[akself]

Hi, I am concerned after migrating to NT8 and trading with it for two days. I trade from the charts. I have a powerful four months old computer with multiple cores and threads and lots of fast memory. I was excited about migrating to NT8 thinking it would be a faster trading platform than NT7 when running on a multi core computer. So far I am experiencing the opposite. The cross hair is lagging severly in ny NT8 charts. It is to the point that I am having problems getting into the market at the right moment when the market is fast. Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of NT8? I really like some of the new features such as the ability to link an order to an indicator and the ability to use MIT orders. Unfortunately I will have to go back to using NT7 if there is no way of getting rid of the lag.