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Skryabin
Dec 20, 2023Copper Contributor
Strange high CPU usage on youtube videos
I was playing some random Youtube videos in Edge and I noticed some unusual noise coming from the radiator fans (I have a custom fan curve based on CPU temp) I looked into my motherboard debug...
owler275
Jan 15, 2024Copper Contributor
the same
any ideas how to fix?
any ideas how to fix?
certifiedliftforker
Jan 03, 2025Copper Contributor
Don't know how to fix it, however i noticed something after disabling the "preview videos" when mouse cursor is howering over the video stuff. Watching normal videos is fine, not much going on with the cpu there, but the moment i scroll down to watch a youtube shorts video it peaks up quite alot. Suspect that the code maybe uses cpu rendering for shorts and "preview mode" or something like that, possibly because it's not full window maybe? idk. just an observation