Helicon Focus 4.2.9 consumes high CPU when idle

[pwnell]

After having performed a stack, once it finished Helicon Focus will consume high amounts of CPU, jumping between 0% and 600% continuously even though it is not processing anything anymore. Clearing the source and target images makes no difference. This is on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.

[Stas Yatsenko]

You are welcome to try latest beta:
http://www.heliconsoft.com/downloads/HeliconFocus6.dmg

[Pizzy]

I'm having the same problem with 4.2.9. I've downloaded 6.0.0 beta, and now it works fine. After rendering the CPU usage goes down to 0.2 %.

How long will the beta version work? Alternatively, will there be a free official update for the 4.x.x users fixing this problem any time soon?

[Stas Yatsenko]

We do not plan to support 4.x version anymore, we plan to make a release of version 6 soon and you are welcome to test it.