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Alex88 wrote: ↑September 25th, 2020, 11:26 pm but check that you have hardware acceleration turned on (left click the tray icon > Settings), as it significantly helps with larger skins (large suites, visualizers).

balala wrote: ↑September 26th, 2020, 10:05 am I still believe a not-visible, background running skin, is the culprit.

Alex88 wrote: ↑September 26th, 2020, 9:30 pm For the direct problem he mentioned I definitely agree, there is probably another skin that is causing the CPU usage. The other thing I could think of is possibly he changed something in the code of the skin that causes some kind of undesirable loop, but it sounds much more likely that he loaded other skins in the background and is not aware of those. Enabling hardware acceleration is more a tip for after the fact, if he plans to load other skins afterwards, and for most modern systems that have some kind of dedicated GPU I would guess doesn't have a downside to enabling.

deflore08 wrote: ↑September 27th, 2020, 9:46 pm I strongly recommend to turn off hardware sloweration, especially when you got a problems with performance.

Alex88 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2020, 4:32 am For my system at least, hardware acceleration has always decreased my CPU usage and also temperatures in more intensive cases. I tried loading Gadgets, Modern Gadgets, and Rainformer all together with and without acceleration for a few minutes each, and without HW acceleration caused about a 10% increase in Rainmeter's CPU usage, 4% with vs. 14% without, and I think was 33 C with vs. 42 C without, for the temperatures. Maybe if a config is heavily weighted towards measure calculations and/or external IO with plugins, lua, AutoIt/AHK, etc. and not many graphical items, hardware acceleration may not be as useful there, but I would think for most Rainmeter users they aren't heavily invested into that direction. In the end it's an easy option to change to see if it's a help or not for your particular hardware.

Alex88 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2020, 4:32 am For my system at least, hardware acceleration has always decreased my CPU usage and also temperatures in more intensive cases. I tried loading Gadgets, Modern Gadgets, and Rainformer all together with and without acceleration for a few minutes each, and without HW acceleration caused about a 10% increase in Rainmeter's CPU usage, 4% with vs. 14% without, and I think was 33 C with vs. 42 C without, for the temperatures. Maybe if a config is heavily weighted towards measure calculations and/or external IO with plugins, lua, AutoIt/AHK, etc. and not many graphical items, hardware acceleration may not be as useful there, but I would think for most Rainmeter users they aren't heavily invested into that direction. In the end it's an easy option to change to see if it's a help or not for your particular hardware.

deflore08 wrote: ↑September 28th, 2020, 7:18 am Lucky. i getting x2-x3 gpu usage and a little less cpu utilization + skin's freezes and input lags in past. It might affect on system so hard in some cases.

balala wrote: ↑September 28th, 2020, 8:34 am Check if the driver of your video card is up to date. I suppose it isn't. I also had similar problems in past, but later I realized the driver is outdated, I updated it and now it works more or less good (well, in fact there also are some minor problems, but I'm using the HA)