rocksdanister
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3 months ago switching GPU rendering on or off does NOT change a thing.
GPU Decoding setting is under Video Player which Rain is not (its dynamic webpage and not video.)
Webpage wallpapers sometime come with its own performance setting, for example there is a Scaling setting in Rain to reduce render resolution.
Rest is as explained in the wiki, please stop creating new issues: https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Performance
Describe the bug First of all: yes, I have seen the wiki page about performance and the other post and tried around a bit. This case, however, is different and I cannot solve it myseld so far, so I hove it a try.
Lately, after using Lively Wallpaper for some weeks now without issues, I became aware that it uses my GPU by 30-40%! That first seems to be a VERY big GPU usage even though mine is not the fastest (NVidia GTX 1660 Super, 6 GB, PCIe 3.0) which can handle even the more demanding modern games at full details.
Further, switching GPU rendering on or off does NOT change a thing. I would expect GPU usage to get lower and maybe CPU usage to rise when disabled, but it still stays the same.
Next, I tried the suggested update from one of the other threads and updates MPV to the latest x64-v3 version, but that also did not change anything.
The main processes of Lively Wallpaper do not use much ressources; the main process which causes the above seems to be always ONE out of five »CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess« processes I could only identify as one of Lively Wallpaper because they dissappear when it is closed (or maybe it is a system process used by it; 25-30% GPU usage). The second one is the Desktop Window Manager which uses the GPU at around 5-10%.
All of that is immediately stopped when stopping the application. Changing settings also does not change anything.
In general, this is not a problem; but the GPU usage is much greater as with much more intense and demanding tasks the GPU handles easily and with less usage. Also, this is not a good value regarding energy efficiency.
Currently, I am using the Rain effect whith a custom background image and most of the additional settings like post processing disabled.
Any idea if this is normal or how to reduce this?
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: (I guess, this special behaviour can only be reproduced on my system, maybe. But I can do tests and bring in more information if needed.)
Expected behavior Obvious (see above).
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Additional context None for now.
Log file (Important) Share the diagnostic files by: Attached. lively_log_20240816_224629.zip