sidneys / desktop-dimmer

Enable darker-than-dark dimming for internal and external screens.
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Troublingly high CPU usage #61

Open videogameplayer909 opened 3 years ago

videogameplayer909 commented 3 years ago

🤷🏽‍♂️ Current Behaviour

It's very noticeable, keeping it on just for a half an hour turned the idle CPU temp of my laptop from 40~ish C up to around 60ish C. On performance monitor, its average processing power use is close to the highest, at all times.

Turning it off lowers the CPU temp down back after a while, with the fan activity noticeably going back down, too.

🎯 Expected Behaviour

Hoping that it doesn't consume so much resource.

I honestly cannot recommend this software at all if it throttles the CPU this much just to get a darker screen. Not worth potentially lowering the lifespan of the machine from high heat just to get lowered brightness.