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    • l33t4opera
      l33t4opera @marjang last edited by

      @marjang Hi, here in the latest Opera stable (77.0.4054.146), when I enable it in settings, it remains enabled after I close and relaunch the browser.

      What's your Opera version?, if not the latest one, perhaps update to it and see if this helps.

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      • marjang
        marjang @l33t4opera last edited by

        @l33t4opera Thanks, i have same version. Battery saver goes to off when Opera restarts. I don't have laptop, it is regular PC... Is that the problem?

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        • andrew84
          andrew84 @marjang last edited by

          @marjang Same here.
          But I don't use battery saver because it also limits PC's resources (If I don't mistake). I use only .h264 extension suggested by @l33t4opera and currently the performance is acceptable.
          I hope in future they'll finally introduce the option in Settings to disable the animation not only in power save mode.

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          • l33t4opera
            l33t4opera @marjang last edited by l33t4opera

            @marjang I see, so it seems to be the issue, that you try to use battery saver on desktop, where there's no battery available.

            Also, as @andrew84 wrote, the option to turn off the animation should be available regardless of whether a user is using the battery saving feature or not. I can't tell you if Opera's devs are already working on it, or if it is even planned, because I am one of the users and not an Opera employee.
            I think you will get a better answer, if you ask about it on the blog.

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            • marjang
              marjang @andrew84 last edited by

              @andrew84 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

              I don't use battery saver because it also limits PC's resources

              True. Frames are skipping badly on youtube with battery saver, unfortunately. Not perfect solution, but i still use it on fanless PC, so that it does not overheat.

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              • andrew84
                andrew84 last edited by andrew84

                Now there's a general flag appeared in the latest (80.0.4162.0) developer build.
                #static-tab-audio-indicator
                2021-08-31_141749.png

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

                  @andrew84 Thanks for the heads up. This is awesome! Hopefully users here can confirm that this helps.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

                    @burnout426 said in High cpu usage watching youtube:

                    Hopefully users here can confirm that this helps.

                    The new flag really helps, I checked.

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      @johnd78 Awesome!

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                      • andrew84
                        andrew84 last edited by andrew84

                        Strange thing here is that after updating to 79 version, the performance when watching youtube is worse with 'h264ify' extension enabled.
                        In previous versions it was the opposite situation.
                        *The best performance for me is now in Dev version with 'h264ify' extension disabled and with 'static indicator' flag enabled.

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                        • andrew84
                          andrew84 last edited by

                          Since 79 version avc1 videos on youtube overload CPU here(even without the animated tab indicator).
                          I checked it in Chrome and in Edge Canary without any issues.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            I have this problem in the latest version does anyone else have this issue where youtube is just devouring cpu despite being on the latest version? Also I've looked around and haven't found a solid this has fixed it fix.

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                            • cabusopera
                              cabusopera last edited by

                              Try to install VP9 Extension, which allows the GPU to take the most workload, releasing CPU (especially in 4K contents).

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User @cabusopera last edited by

                                @cabusopera how does this help with youtube? I don't understand since this is an app not something I can run or attach to opera as an extension and call it a day. This is a video player that isn't youtube and doesn't have youtube... I guess I just don't see what this suggestion was suggesting when the issue is about youtube.

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                                • cabusopera
                                  cabusopera @Guest last edited by cabusopera

                                  @l1l-st4bb13s Description:

                                  Play VP9 videos in any video app on your Windows 10 device. VP9 is a popular video codec for streaming over the internet. These VP9 Video Extensions are designed to take advantage of hardware capabilities on newer devices. For devices that don’t have hardware support for VP9 videos, software support is provided, but the playback experience might vary based on the video resolution and device performance. These extensions also let you encode VP8 and VP9 content on devices that don’t have a hardware-based video encoder.

                                  Applies to web browser content also

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User @cabusopera last edited by

                                    @cabusopera I have tried over and over to run the application and nothing happens am I doing something wrong? Could you help me open this?

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                                    • burnout426
                                      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                      @l1l-st4bb13s https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues#wiki_opera_on_windows_is_slow

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

                                        @burnout426 tried everything on the list and nothing worked

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User @Guest last edited by leocg

                                          the opera://gpu says this if it helps

                                          Graphics Feature Status
                                          Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                          Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled
                                          Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
                                          Compositing: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                          Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
                                          OpenGL: Disabled
                                          Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                          Raw Draw: Disabled
                                          Skia Renderer: Enabled
                                          Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                          Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
                                          Vulkan: Disabled
                                          WebGL: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                          WebGL2: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
                                          WebGPU: Disabled
                                          Problems Detected
                                          WebGPU has been disabled via blocklist or the command line.
                                          Disabled Features: webgpu
                                          Gpu compositing has been disabled, either via blocklist, about:flags or the command line. The browser will fall back to software compositing and hardware acceleration will be unavailable.
                                          Disabled Features: gpu_compositing
                                          
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                                          • burnout426
                                            burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                            @l1l-st4bb13s Goto opera://flags and choose "reset all", Goto the URL opera://settings/system, and make sure "hardware acceleration" is on. Then, restart Opera and goto opera://gpu. Any difference?

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