Power BI Desktop - Resource Usage - CPU/RAM/Disk priorities

Hey lordtopcat ,

please be aware, that quite often it's not the client machine that the bottleneck in directquery scenario.

Sometimes it's the report design, be aware that each visual creates it's own query, meaning, the more visuals the more queries.

Sometimes it's the database itself.

For this reason, I recommend this article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/directquery-model-guidance

that provides some hints on how to speed up your directquery solution.

Hopefully, this provides some ideas to tackle your challenge.

Regards,

Tom