Hi Carolyn,
Superqt, one of the dependencies of idtrackerai, was upgraded lately causing our GUIs to fail. This was fixed on v6 but not on v5 since we are no longer supporting this version. If you want to keep using v5 you'll need to manually downgrade superqt with:
python -m pip install superqt==0.7.4
This should do the trick.
Regarding the responsiveness of the Validator. No Cuda, GPU nor Torch are used in the Validator, 100% of it is CPU processing. Some speed improvements were done in v6, specially when clicking an error in the list (in both versions 5 and 6 of the Validator, a few video frames around the clicked error are always pre-loaded so that the browsing becomes faster once the pre-loading finishes, in v6 we moved this step to parallel process which does not freeze the main app). If you have to keep working with v5, make sure to have your video file in a SSD, instead of a HDD, to allow fast video reading.
Jordi