Possible to make iMovie 2013 less demanding?

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Hi,

As the title states, I'm wondering if there's a way to make iMovie 2013 (version 10.1) run in a way that is less demanding for the Mac. The reason I'm asking is because it's being run on an iMac from early 2008, with a graphics card that is not OpenCL Capable (ATI Radeon HD2400 XT 128Mb. I know it's old and outdated, and I will be purchasing a new iMac in a couple of months). I believe that for that reason, the screen frequently flickers in black pixels when the app is being run, forcing a restart in order to get it back to normal. During this process, however, the Mac is not frozen. What I'm looking for - based on my very limited experience - is for example if you can disable some form of hardware acceleration that would perhaps mask the issue, even if it would limit the potential of iMovie ever so slightly.
 

Cory Cooper

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Hello again...

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to disable anything related to the video card to allow it rot run properly. I think the issue is simply that the hardware is too old, as you stated, and although Apple removed the OpenCL requirement, that particular iMac/video card combination just does't have the processing power.

Sorry,

C
 

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