{"id":4093,"date":"2025-02-01T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiemaguire.net\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2025-02-01T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T08:40:20","slug":"how-to-resolve-poor-performance-on-raspberry-pi-4-when-running-visal-studio-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiemaguire.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/how-to-resolve-poor-performance-on-raspberry-pi-4-when-running-visal-studio-code\/","title":{"rendered":"How To: Resolve Poor Performance on Raspberry Pi 4 When Running Visual Studio Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I will hack around on a Raspberry Pi 4 with my son.\u00a0 Recently, we had been creating a fun home motion detection home security system.<\/p>\n

We had been using Thonny as it shipped with the Pi installation and was running smoothly.<\/p>\n

The simple interface was good for my son.<\/p>\n

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I installed Visual Studio Code.\u00a0 It was unusable.<\/p>\n

The performance was terrible.<\/p>\n

The slightest click or cursor movement took ages.<\/p>\n

The PI has 8GB of RAM so should be fine.<\/p>\n

After a little digging, it turns out, you need to disable hardware acceleration.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Visual Studio Code<\/h2>\n

To do this, press F1<\/code> in VS Code, type runtime<\/code>:<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Select: Preferences, Configure Runtime Arguments<\/code><\/p>\n

The file will load, you need to set this to the following:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Visual Studio Code is now useable in the Pi.<\/p>\n

In a future post, I will share how we built an AI home security system using .NET, Semantic Kernel, Telegram, and Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

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