Hi I have moved from Kodi to Plex as my living room media center. I’m using a NUC8i3BEK2, which obviously is not a beast, but ran Kodi just fine and it has the Iris 655 gpu. On plex I find that the menus and navigation in general to be sluggish and GPU load is going through the roof when moving th…

Performance on menus and navigation

darcilicious October 21, 2019, 6:22pm 4

You might want to try the preview release:

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