DisplayFusion RSS: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:57:13 GMT

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I don't know if I have mentioned it on this thread or not, but one way to work around this issue - until BF fix it correctly - is to set a fairly high Taskbar Polling Interval. You can find this in Advanced Settings. I have mine currently set to 12000, which means the DF Taskbars only update once every 12 seconds.

But I will again say that the amount of CPU/disk activity that the various DF processes are doing per unit time is just INSANE. Fix that and we all win. The product is UNUSABLE out of the box if you are on battery power, and when plugged in you NOTICE the load the "utility application" places on your computer, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Sysinternals ProcessMonitor will allow you to capture the extraordinary volume of calls being made.

Not sure how it'll turn out in the future, but currently, this seems to have really, really undone the CPU hogging for me! From something like 20+ (Classic Task Manager) to 3-9! Mostly just 3-5 actually... If this proves to be a long-term fix, then that just really saves my neck tbh.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:56:45 GMT

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We've made some changes in our latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Can everyone here try it out and let me know if there's any change?

Thanks!

There's definitely an improvement. Previous version CPU usage would be 5% minimum, now it's in the range of 1.5% to 5%, with occasional spikes to 5.5%ish. Average is probably 3% max.

Win 10 x64, i5-4670, 8GB RAM.

v10.1 beta 6 also brought my CPU usage down from 5-10% to 1-3% (with all hooks disabled)

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:43:31 GMT

Any chance we could get a link to the new thread here? Google finds this one first. Thanks

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:17:43 GMT

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

@siliconman01 Could you start a new thread, and send in a copy of your troubleshooting info from each system so we can compare them on beta 17?

Thanks!

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:53:58 GMT

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We've made some changes in our latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Can everyone here try it out and let me know if there's any change?

Thanks!

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:33:58 GMT

Owen, by now I gave up on DisplayFusion. The problems with AWM appeared when attaching extra monitor, but the problem with DF is there all the time. Yes, AWM team does not respond to customers filing problem reports, while DF team does, but this makes no difference whatsoever in practice. I cannot have computers overheating and all work impaired because of a monitor manager. It makes no sense whatsoever. It is hard to have confidence in a team that cannot fix the problem for close to a year by now. I may come back if this gets ever stabilized, but, for now all my DF installations are inactive.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:12:29 GMT

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We've made some changes in our latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Can everyone here try it out and let me know if there's any change?
Thanks!

It provided some improvement on Windows 11x64. However, on my primary system running Windows 10x64 Pro, it was worse than Beta 16. Its CPU usage was 2.5 to 4.5 consistently
I dropped back to V9.9 and the DF CPU useage dropped back to less than 1.0%

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:45:32 GMT

We've made some changes in our latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Can everyone here try it out and let me know if there's any change?

Thanks!

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:08:58 GMT

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We have some more changes coming for the next beta that should help a lot with CPU usage as well. On my machine it reduced it from averaging around 3-4% down to 0-1%.

This sounds very encouraging. Hopefully we will get Beta 17 shortly.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:26:06 GMT

Same problem here. my computer was so sluggish as to be almost disabled. Turned off the multi monitor TB and now DF is not longer eating 20% or more CPU

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:42:24 GMT

Can you guys confirm that you're checking the CPU usage using the Details tab in Task Manager and not the Processes tab? The Processes tab shows much higher usage because it uses a different (and misleading) stat.

We have some more changes coming for the next beta that should help a lot with CPU usage as well. On my machine it reduced it from averaging around 3-4% down to 0-1%.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:32:22 GMT

Oh bummer. It may help, but I've personally seen a pretty consistant 2-5% use (vs 20-40%) from 11 through the current version So not sure going back will do much good.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:28:45 GMT

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@Michael
Beta 11 or so was a big drop in CPU use adn helped a great deal with this issue. I think they are on beta 16 or so now. I would advise you upgrade. There is still work to do, but it's much better than it was before.

Oops I am on Beta 16 i guess i will try 11.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:21:47 GMT

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:00:01 GMT

I'm on Windows 11 and definitely high CPU usage. I'm on 10.0 (Beta 6). With taskbars disabled it can run 2-5% but with it enabled it is easily 20% slowing down my computer. Is this normal? Even 2-5% seems high.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:32:09 GMT

Ok, unfortunately I don't have that one for testing. Any other games have this issue?

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 18 May 2022 21:18:21 GMT

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@Mettalknight: Which games? I'll see if we have any of them here to test with.

Propnight was pretty unplayable (its on steam). I had to revert update 16 because of it.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 18 May 2022 19:06:50 GMT

We'll keep at it, thanks for testing Beta 16 and following up with us.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 May 2022 21:22:29 GMT

Beta 16 went down for me to 5% which is far more tolerable, but Actual Window Monitor runs under analogous circumstances at 0.5%. With AWM the problems for me were in the system choking up when a monitor was being added. However, adding or removing monitor are singular instances while the high CPU is always there, crippling all work.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 May 2022 20:33:06 GMT

Turning off the multi monitor taskbar drops CPU usage to .2 to .5%.

That's one of the main features I like though. Will leave it on for now and hopefully you guys can drop it down a little more.

Thanks,

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:30:39 GMT

@Mettalknight: Which games? I'll see if we have any of them here to test with.

@Andrew Whittington: It's most likely the polling needed for keeping the taskbars and monitor info up to date. If you disable multi-monitor taskbars, does the CPU usage drop?

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 May 2022 12:03:27 GMT

It still seems why too high to me (beta 16). I'm running 2.5-4.3% with three monitors that have five total virtual monitors. This is on a 5600X Ryzen processor. Windows build 22000.675.0.
It is for sure better than some of the 20-40% numbers I saw in earlier builds, so solid improvements have been made, but I'd hope you would work to get it down to < 1% on a modern processor, similar to other background processes. Slack for example is almost always 0% with UI up and available on demand. Chrome is generally < .5% with a window with multiple tabs up.
I'm not sure what it's doing to need so much processing power while the UI is not even up and I would think the screens are static once set.

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 May 2022 00:40:16 GMT

Update 16 definitely has lower CPU usage overall @Keith. But certain games definitely seem to be lagging more than 9.9

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 16 May 2022 17:17:50 GMT

@Pawel: We've re-worked some caching to reduce the amount of work that's done on some polling cycles in DisplayFusion. Could you try updating to DisplayFusion 10.0 Beta 16 and let me know how it works out?

RE: DisplayFusion High CPU usage - 20%-40%

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 01:19:16 GMT

I first tried lowering the priority of the DisplayFusion task, but then instead limited it to one CPU:

It's been sitting at 20% which is manageable... for now.