Mention the Xorg client limit in troubleshooting

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Robbert van der Helm
2020-09-27 23:01:28 +02:00
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being able to start. There should be plugin output messages in your DAW or
terminal that with more information on what went wrong.
- If you're using a _lot_ of plugins and you're unable to load any new plugins,
then you may be running into Xorg's client limit. The exact number of plugins
it takes for this to happen will depend on your system and the other
applications running in the background. An easy way to check if this is the
case would be to try and run `wine cmd.exe` from a terminal. If this prints a
message about the maximum number of clients being reached (or if you are not
able to open the terminal at all), then you might want to consider using
[plugin groups](#plugin-groups) to run all instances of your most frequently
used plugins within a single process.
## Performance tuning
Running Windows VST plugins under Wine should have minimal performance impact,