I tried it and wound up going back to 2.5.0.5. When I enabled "hardware decoding preferred", playback was fine at 1x and 2x but froze at 4x.
I use 4x for reviewing recordings and playback without hardware decoding preferred doesn't reach actual 4x so that was a big issue for me. Sent US support an email, got a "we don't support that version" reply. Replied explaining further and suggested that they test before posting.
I'm very curious if anyone else sees the same issue. (System Configuration/Image/ Hardware Decoding Preferred). I also have highlighting enabled.
Windows 10 Pro using Intel onboard graphics