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Teams Performance
Adding my voice to this as it's becoming unusable. Teams is (for now) the preferred communication tool for our software dev. company (8000 employees, almost all working remotely because of Covid) and it's the #1 complain from people: computers are unusable when in a conference call with cameras open.
Cameras are a must since everyone has been remote for the past 8 months, and when I'm on a call and trying to find a document in background to share (for example), it takes 5-10 seconds for my computer to even register a mouse click. I've disabled the hardware acceleration it changes nothing. Closing the cameras help but it defeat the whole point.
My computer is a Microsoft Surface Pro 5th Gen (2017), 2 i5-7300 cores, 8Gb RAM, SSD.
There's more and more internal voices asking for a replacement communication tool. This needs to be fixed.
regismorin I found it so bad with a Surface Pro 4 Core i7 with 16GB ram that I invested in a Surface Pro 7 Core i7 (10th gen) also with 16GB of ram and it's only marginally better if that as with Teams open, basic tasks such as just replying to an email are so slow (where I have to constantly wait for the text to catch up) and by the time you have Outlook, Visual Studio, a few browser tabs and Explorer windows it just grinds to a halt. OneDrive sync also contributes to the issue so between that and Teams my top end Microsoft device cannot easily handle both these common Microsoft applications running at once.
I do find that after a Teams call, especially where I share my screen it helps to reboot afterwards to try and regain a bit of performance. Teams should not be built on Electron and should use something more efficient.
Really wish something would be done.
Robin