https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-usage/m-p/4687881#M72332 <P>Hey <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/22569376">@iMxMiKE</a>, welcome to the Community.<BR /><BR />Hope you are doing great!<BR /><BR />Try to disable Hardware Acceleration, just click on the … top left corner, inside the View tab find Hardware Acceleration and next click on it to disable then confirm to restart Spotify.<BR />Also, if you don't use local files try to disable them inside Settings.<BR /><BR />Let me know how it goes <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:33:14 GMT Loxer 2019-02-23T00:33:14Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-usage/m-p/4687705#M72315 <P>&nbsp;</P><P>Im using windows 10 and every time i want to hear music, spotify uses 50% of my CPU. I already tried with un-/reinstall but it did not help. I also shut down some settings.</P> Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:55:45 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-usage/m-p/4687705#M72315 iMxMiKE 2019-02-22T17:55:45Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-usage/m-p/4687881#M72332 <P>Hey <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/22569376">@iMxMiKE</a>, welcome to the Community.<BR /><BR />Hope you are doing great!<BR /><BR />Try to disable Hardware Acceleration, just click on the … top left corner, inside the View tab find Hardware Acceleration and next click on it to disable then confirm to restart Spotify.<BR />Also, if you don't use local files try to disable them inside Settings.<BR /><BR />Let me know how it goes <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:33:14 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-usage/m-p/4687881#M72332 Loxer 2019-02-23T00:33:14Z