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New posts. Search forums. Log in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Read this first! Thread starter dodgepong Start date Jan 6, Status Not open for further replies. However, some people might experience high CPU utilization, and other programs running on your computer might experience degraded performance while OBS is active if your settings are too high for your computer's hardware.

In some cases, OBS will say "Encoding overloaded! Here are some ways you can reduce resource utilization and, hopefully, make both OBS and your programs run faster while encoding: Downscale your output resolution The resolution that you are encoding at has the biggest impact on CPU usage.

For example, p has more than twice the number of pixels in each frame versus p, and your CPU usage increases accordingly. The most common way to reduce CPU usage is to downscale your resolution. When you downscale, OBS takes your scene and shrinks it as much as you tell it to before giving it to the encoder. You may want your base resolution at p, since that's the resolution your content is in, but your CPU may not be able to encode an un-downscaled p video.

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Even if all specs match. It might have not been updated for a long time, to begin with. If you have two memory slots and one is empty you could add one more stick and it might even work but…. I would Not do it. Just get two new sticks. There are also a lot of options to customize the behavior. Why is this a problem? My machine has 16gb and if I was building today I would be getting double that. One for Browsing and one for other stuff. I do not get all the people that needs so much RAM.

Ok, the future will be demanding for this rick but for now is going the best that I had in 20 years and can even find new videocards with GDDR5 that works and have Xp drivers and no need for 4K video. Is all noise and to expensive for what it really is. I have read your advice, and tinkered a bit with Firefox. I have a question about processes. Is this 4 exactly? So that the number shown in Options differs from the one shown in Task Manager. Is that true? If you set FF to use 1 web content process then all the tabs you open will share that 1 process, 1 tab or 20 will share that 1 process.

If you instead use the default in the Preferences which is 4 web content processes then your tabs will be split among those 4 processes. With me so far? What ever number of processes you choose to use in the Preferences you can generally add 3 to that number and that is what you will see in the Windows Task Manager when 3 or more tabs are open. For example… the default is 4 content processes. When you first open FF with 1 tab you will see 5 processes if you have extensions in the Windows Task Manager.

When you open a 2nd tab a 6th process will start and when you open a 3rd tab a 7th process will start. From that point on FF will continue to show 7 processes in the Windows Task Manager until the tab count drops to 3 or less. Just remember, in this case, only 1 of the 4 processes you see in the Windows Task Manager is a web content process. After choosing to use 1 web content process you can eliminate one more process which would be the extension process and that would bring the total processes seen in the Windows Task Manager down to 3 from 4.

When every MB of memory counts it might be worth eliminating that process. Last resort! If you have any questions let me know. Sorry for being so long-winded, the whole process is hard to explain in a way that is easily understood. Now for the market and software design aspects of the issue.

All this confirms the absolutely ridiculous situation Mozilla has allowed to develop with Firefox. And yet, it seems to be the consensus that 4 GB are very tight for Firefox use. Plus, researching the issue shows that people have been complaining for ages about Firefox hogging memory. Not just needing a lot of memory, like Photoshop does, for instance : saturating memory, so that the PC crawls to a stop. So the logical thing for Mozilla would be to get up from their asses, and start working on their blasted memory problem.

So that if you set 2 processes, you might actually get 5 or 6 of them, showing in Task Manager. You infuriated a significant portion of your users by destroying the previous extension system for possibly good reasons. No other program that I know of has such a huge problem. Eight years later the average laptop now has 8 GB. Everyone with 4 GB or less, and it sucks that it means half of all FF users, will have to adapt to the new hardware reality, but there are options.

Anyway, there are options. There are even page file optimizers that can be used if a person wants. How many on gHacks have spent more on phones the last three years than they have on their current computer? I bet the answer would be very interesting. Right now what I see on this desktop is light years ahead of what I saw when using FF 10 years ago. The performance I see right now is so effing good it completely negates the need for viagra.

Looks pretty darn good to me! Browser is not an RSS reader. Internet shopping and, some people view the videos, such as You Tube. Twitter, Facebook, various games, etc. There are a wide variety of customers such as corporate use, military use, etc. Browser has no primary responsibility. This is the fate of the high technology of. I used to have trouble with a slow memory leak in Pale Moon possibly due to one of my many extensions. Worse, when I was running a virtual machine and Pale Moon at the same time, I would sometimes run out of RAM and enter RAM-to-disk-swapping hell, where the computer could take a minute or more to respond to a simple alt-tab.

And that could last for five to ten minutes. The first two options load on demand and Restart worked fine but required me to keep an eye on how much RAM Pale Moon was using and to manually click the Restart button when usage was getting high. I tried to get into the habit of restarting at least once a day, but sometimes I got wrapped up in what I was doing and forgot.

The major downside is that it interferes with my Tab Mix Plus settings for which tab I get switched to when I close a tab. I frequently close a contiguous group of tabs in quick succession, from left to right, and being bounced away from the group instead of just moving to the next tab on the right was too much of a hassle.

I read an article a few years ago that claimed that web site builders should go out and buy a Windows Machine, a Mac, an Iphone etc. They got a massive backlash and rightly so. This is wrong thinking. Prices went through the roof over the year and depending on whether you need DDR3 or DDR4 will add to the cost, as will getting the right RAM speed to match the one in your computer because the motherboard will drop the speed to the lowest RAM installed, then you need to make sure its compatible with your motherboard.

Not sure if you are aware of this or not but not everyone is as tech savvy as us. There is no reason why a browser needs to hog RAM. Closing the tab solves it but if you are multi-tasking and need that RAM, the only way to free it is by using software like processhacker or RAMMap. The fact that Microsoft created a program to manage memory proves they know its an issue. It comes to a point when what is in memory should be discarded or dumped in a swap file or there should be a setting that lets you clear memory after a certain amount of time, only keeping what is needed without having to install more software.

The unused ram is wasted ram excuse is a cop-out for lazy developers to not fix code or make things more efficient.

Windows 10 caches to the standby-memory, this is useful but when useless data, as in the case of live video, is kept in the Memory in Use rather than the standby memory, its stealing resources. While i agree that having an insane amount of tabs open is ridicoulous and there will always be a limit no matter how much RAM you have before you run out of memory or crash the browser…if a browser reaches the point where it becomes too restricted on what it can do, then it ceases to be a useful browser.

Out of every computer that i have come across where they have struggled with resources from a browser, its never been due to an extension. Sure it happens but its been a long time since i have come across it. Its rarely an extension, its all the pointless junk the browser loads in to RAM for those extra miliseconds so they can claim their browser is faster.

Browsers need better, more efficient memory management. This is an issue thats falling on deaf ears. There is a constant stream of complaints daily about it, its something people are not going to shut up about until it has been dealt with. Get out of your shell, there are others in the world living in different circumstances that are limited on what they can do are you are not helping to make things better for everyone.

Good point. Browsers take an inordinate amount of RAM nowadays. Firefox especially is a sloppy hog. Word is a huuuge piece of software. My edition takes all of… 7 MB of private memory on my PC, and it launches in a flash, contrary to Firefox, which takes ages to pick up its marbles. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up.

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Comments Yuliya said on September 18, at pm. This really is Windows 10 levels of terrible. Anonymous Coward said on September 18, at pm. Using more memory is a good thing. Unused RAM is a waste. Yuliya said on September 19, at pm.

John Fenderson said on September 19, at pm. Ananamiss said on October 30, at pm. Anonymous said on March 31, at am. Samnju said on February 28, at pm. Richard Allen said on September 19, at am. Exaggerate much? Clairvaux said on September 18, at pm. And what I see is… Smoke and mirrors!

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