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Brass Contributor

Apr 23, 2020

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Why Teams is slowing down my Mac?

It's been a while since I've been having issues with my MacBook Pro 16" performance while using teams for example in a call or in a live event, and I can't even think of having the app open while edi...

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ChrisAnders1969
Sep 16, 2020
2 of my colleagues mine experienced warped MAC batteries (and cases) as a result of their machines overheating - caused by Teams. Indication is fan staying on for a long time (all day?) which cant be healthy. Im told the solution they found (probably through online search) was to change the setting in Teams to disable GPU hardware acceleration. Worked for me! KHartman

tfox3572

Copper Contributor

May 07, 2020

CharlieArellano I have a much more modest macbook 2017 i7 1,4 Ghz with 16 Gb RAM and have the same issue, it takes forever to open any office allocation and also the systems mac apps like activity monitor are slowed down. it happens mostly when teams is active on a videoconference . it is worse if i connect also a rather small external monitor (22" FHD).

i hope somebody could help

thank you

CharlieArellano

Brass Contributor

May 14, 2020

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**bleep**, I guess we just need to wait, what I did the other day was to uncheck the box that said "Use graphic acceleration when available" and that made Teams even slooooower hahaha, well, let's just wait to see if someone has some answers for us, mate.