topic Windows 10 App CPU Usage in Desktop (Windows)

Windows 10 App CPU Usage

rmfrench314 — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:53:32 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

WIndows 10 Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Spotify app eats the CPU on a speedy new desktop machine. How do I reduce this?

Spotify works fine on my little Android phone. Why is the Windows version such a CPU hog? I turned off hardware acceleration and that helped a little. Spotify is now using 60% of CPU rather than 80%.

Re: Windows 10 App CPU Usage

rmfrench314 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:47:28 GMT

Follow Up:

The network guys took a look at my computer and made some changes to how it used the video cards. I have a Radeon 550 in addition to the integrated video card. Not sure why, but that fixed the CPU usage problem. It's now at 15%-20% most of the time - about what you'd expect.

Re: Windows 10 App CPU Usage

rmfrench314 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:55:32 GMT

Second Update:

Machine apparently needs to be rebooted in the morning for the fix to work. I let the machine go to sleep at the end of the day yesterday and Spotify was borked when I logged back in this morning.