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    The High CPU/RAM/ETC Usage Topic - Opera GX

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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

      @pavel58 Don't remember have ever seen such process here.

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      • nxpanx
        nxpanx last edited by

        I have been having this problem for months and I usually controlled it by limiting the RAM usage in the GX Control.
        Fortunately, I found a solution yesterday that worked on my pc and it also decreased the cpu usage but there is no guarantee that it will work for you but it’s worth a try:

        • Open flags by using the url chrome://flags
        • Search for and enable Hardware-accelerated video decode and Hardware-accelerated video encode
        • Switch the Choose ANGLE graphics backend to OpenGL

        As you can see in the screenshot below, I have so many tabs open but the RAM or CPU usages haven't sky-rocketed. Before this, the app would have used up 5GB of RAM
        2022-02-02 04_58_21-.png

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        • sophienixNeuroi
          sophienixNeuroi @palikka0x45 last edited by

          @palikka0x45 did you try the hard limit button?

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          • sonwman
            sonwman @masoud70 last edited by

            @masoud70 still eats out about 40% of my CPU and i barely using 2tabs 14854e6b-a097-411b-b5b1-468345cfe91a-image.png

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @sonwman last edited by

              @sonwman Video processing/decoding can use lots of CPU.

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              • eatadick24
                eatadick24 @leocg last edited by leocg

                @leocg why is it so hard for you to accept that maybe the problem Is in fact on Opera’s end?!

                In every thread about this topic you keep insisting it is some users settings that are the issue rather than the program itself despite there being Multiple users reporting that this feature is not working as advertised.

                Why can’t you accept that? Why insist some one actually did turn off hardware acceleration when they affirmatively stated they have made no changes to their system? Why assume they are either wrong or made the change and forgot? How is that a more likely actuality than “there’s a bug in this application”?

                It’s ridiculous

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                • IWantSlxcky
                  IWantSlxcky last edited by

                  One Tab Open And No Extensions Iv Used A Limiter Its Set To 1.4gb But Its over The Limit?, WTF Is This Opera GX
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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @IWantSlxcky last edited by

                    @iwantslxcky Shift+ Esc to see the processes running in Opera.

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                    • IWantSlxcky
                      IWantSlxcky @leocg last edited by IWantSlxcky

                      @leocg
                      after looking around, turns out it was Youtubes live chat causing the ram to be really high, also is 600mb+ standard for opera gx?

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @IWantSlxcky last edited by

                        @iwantslxcky Yep, that's normal. I consider it a low RAM usage.

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                        • Shogi
                          Shogi last edited by

                          hi i got a problem with opera it started to use 100% of my cpu and and more than 1gb of ram
                          the problem started few days ago if i watch video on yt the cpu jumps by 70% and sometimes the entire opera just goes black and doesnt respond. does anyone know how to fix ?
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                          • Djems
                            Djems last edited by

                            even with the limitor i only have 2 tab open 2 adblock i dont know why he take 4gb... if i could have help it'ld be nice thanks

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer @Djems last edited by

                              @djems Shift + Esc to see the processes running in Opera and how much memory they are using.

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                              • Djems
                                Djems last edited by Djems

                                @leocg hi thanks for the help here the screen, litteraly just having the forum open i unstalled all my extention (just one is left) i tried to unstall re install gx but it say that i cant ... RY8sTyi.png BGF8FU4.png

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Djems last edited by

                                  @djems Memory usage seems normal.

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                                  • Djems
                                    Djems @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg i compared with a friends and all of his task are way lower than mine, mine is 150k average and his are between 20k - 50k (his also on gx) and some time ago it didnt take 4gb but 1.5/2 so idk

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                                    • Djems
                                      Djems @leocg last edited by

                                      @leocg but thanks tho

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                                      • stealthusk
                                        stealthusk last edited by

                                        Still a resource hog my dudes.

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                                        • Shkverik
                                          Shkverik last edited by

                                          3 tabs are open and uses 6GB of RAM memory49cf3ebf-9471-4c19-881a-21edbd7d864b-image.png

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                                          • leocg
                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Shkverik last edited by

                                            @shkverik Without any useful information, it will be difficult for someone to try to help.

                                            What are the opened pages? Did you check the processes running in Opera with Shift+ESC?

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