RawTherapee cr2 cannot convert cr2 raw file properly - possible demosaicing issue

When I open my raw files (from a Canon T5i) in rawTherapee there is an incredible amount of false noise. But In darkTable the images look fine. Am I missing a step here? To me it looks like an issue with demosaicing.

rawTherapee preview screenshot:
rawTherapee-raw-preview

darkTable preview screenshot of same image
darktable-raw-preview2

I read Editor - RawPedia , but I beleive the difference is way too much to explain by anything in that section.

I found out that it is because of auto-leveling. Once I hit the reset button there, I got the proper output.
Is there a way to set auto-leveling to be disabled by default ?

just create a proper processing profile and set it as your default.

http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Creating_processing_profiles_for_general_use