diff --git a/app/capture.js b/app/capture.js
index 8120470..00b1ded 100644
--- a/app/capture.js
+++ b/app/capture.js
@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ const DEFAULT_CLICK_DEBOUNCE_MS = 200;
 // representation that carries root coordinates) before firing without them.
 const LINUX_CLICK_TWIN_MS = 25;
 // Longest the window stays visible warming up the recorder at recording
-// start. A slow capture-stream start (Windows can take several seconds) must
-// not keep the window up and recording un-armed indefinitely.
-const WARMUP_MAX_MS = 1500;
+// start. A slow capture-stream start (Windows can take several seconds,
+// especially on battery) must not keep the window up and recording un-armed
+// indefinitely — but the window is still visible during warmup, so the user
+// hasn't begun their workflow yet, and the common case still proceeds the
+// instant the stream is ready. The cap only bites when startup is slow, where
+// a little more headroom buys a pre-click frame for the very first click
+// instead of a post-click fresh shot.
+const WARMUP_MAX_MS = 3000;
 // Idle gap between legacy frame-loop grabs. Must stay well above zero:
 // grabbing back-to-back starves the main-process event loop, which delays
 // delivery of click events from the OS watcher by whole seconds. (The
diff --git a/app/main.js b/app/main.js
index 755d180..a3fab62 100644
--- a/app/main.js
+++ b/app/main.js
@@ -733,11 +733,26 @@ if (!gotLock) {
     settings = new Settings(store.settingsDir);
     searchIndex = new SearchIndex(store.indexDir);
     templates = new TemplateManager(store.templatesDir);
+    // Bringing up the desktop-capture stream spawns/upgrades Chromium's GPU
+    // and screen-capture utility processes — which can be born after a session
+    // already started, so the start-time EcoQoS opt-out misses them. Re-apply
+    // it the moment the backend reports it is streaming.
+    let lastClickFrameSource = null;
+    const captureNotify = (channel, payload) => {
+      sendToRenderer(channel, payload);
+      if (channel === 'capture:state' && payload && payload.clickFrameSource !== lastClickFrameSource) {
+        lastClickFrameSource = payload.clickFrameSource;
+        if (payload.clickFrameSource === 'stream') {
+          try { keepProcessesResponsive(app.getAppMetrics().map((m) => m.pid)); } catch { /* best effort */ }
+        }
+      }
+    };
+
     capture = new CaptureService({
       store,
       settings,
       getWindow: () => mainWindow,
-      notify: sendToRenderer,
+      notify: captureNotify,
     });
 
     applyTheme();