It's disappointing but right now I'm not as concerned about it as I am about the folks at HeliconSoft--they are located in Kharkiv in Ukraine which has been under artillery and rocket bombardment by the Russian invaders. I hope they are all safe and I will worry about my software update some other ...

Same issue, no OpenCL. Performance is really bad.

Hi Catherine,

The new update (7.6.6) does fix the crashing issues with the benchmark. Strangely though I had to manually download from the website, the check for update inside HeliconFocus did not find an update.

Yup. I figured out after posting and installed the DNG convertor.

As for OpenCL ...

Update as of Nov 25. The current newest version kinda runs on my M1 mac.

Works:
- Jpeg import and render (all 3 methods, really fast)

Kinda works
- Raw In (Crashes as soon as I hit render with the build in Adobe DNG convertor, previews are really slow with a manually installed one from Abobe ...