Report: Skype Hogged PC Resources, Manual Update Will Fix

[Strazdas]

skype hogs resources? and the sky is blue perhaps? my point is that skype ALWAYS was a resource hog and still is and is gotten only worse since MS took control. They already ran MSN into the ground to the point of having it shut down. is skype next? god i hope so.

Skype is ressource heavy since they changed to a heavier client (don't know when it was, when the lightweight clients became incompatible; at least I couldn't manage to run them on a current system), so I generally don't like it and only use it if I have to.

they dropper support for the "lite" version somewhere back in 2010

No, thats one of the reasons why you use Teamspeak 3 instead.

now, if only i had the power to magically make to have anything but skype.....
I use skype only because i must. And i must because most of my contacts dont use anything else.

Now many programs want to launch at start up "for your convenience" by default, some older ones switch it on patches.

yeah those are the worst. especially when i was using an older version of a program jut fine, decided to update and it would start isntalling bloatware without asking me if i wanted it in its setup. i jut go nope and go back to the old version. worst offenders are those download websites now that instead of allowign you to download the setup file downloads the downloader crap that installs 10 bloatware programs before getting to the actual program i want. i turned to boycott these websites as that should be made illegal.

You can get some nice, light Voice over IP software pretty much anywhere such as Mumble or the classics like Ventrillo or Team-Speak

getting these problems isnt a issue. forcing your relatives to use them however.....

No, thats one of the reasons why you use Teamspeak 3 instead.

Actually that's almost as good an example of an earlier version of the same service being better.

ill have to disagree here. i disliked TS2 and preferred ventrilo over it, however since i started using TS3 for one clan that used it i learned to love it far more than ventrilo.

Edit: What CPU's are you people running? And how much RAM? I have OBS and Shadowplay on all the time, aswell as Skype, Razer Comms, various bits of useful firmware and monitoring tools,. and many firefox tabs and windows, and it's never used more than 5%. Core i5 4670K @4.0GHz

Edit again: Also 16GB's of 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance LP at 10-10-10-27. I do need the 16 for video encoding before anyone tells me otherwise.

you pobably dont notice it because your computer can just take any punishment and eat it without choking. meanwhile me sitting here with 2x2,4ghz cores (not even the i series even) count every mhz thats running
Oh and i always like to have more ram than is "necessary" because i tend to weer towards things that are ram heavy i noticed. sadly this machine only has 4 gb and the next planned to get is only 8 gb but that may be upgraded in the future.

Honestly I stopped using Skype after last year when Microsoft updated it, and it just completely stopped working and I've been using Google Hangouts ever since. Apparently Google can make that work, but likes to keep breaking YouTube.

google hnagouts is fun, but its a huge resource hog and the chat is pretty much unusable once more people get in (it starts flashing and stuff). also it has 10 person limit. i find myself unable to play games with hangout open, and yet i can with skype call to same people.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Honestly I stopped using Skype after last year when Microsoft updated it, and it just completely stopped working and I've been using Google Hangouts ever since. Apparently Google can make that work, but likes to keep breaking YouTube.

Same, I deleted the app when microsoft bought it. It seems I was right too.

 

[rednightmare]

This explains a lot actually. I've been having framerate problems with DOTA2 and just couldn't figure out what was causing it.

 

[The White Hunter]

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Well, I just tried my old dual core Pentium @3GHz/ATI 4770/3GB DDR3 @773MHz, and it managed just fine, albeit with much lower settings than my main rig.

 

[Metalrocks]

havent noticed it. maybe because once i finish talking i deactivate skype so its not running in the background. good to know anyway that something has been done about it.

 

[Strazdas]

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Well, I just tried my old dual core Pentium @3GHz/ATI 4770/3GB DDR3 @773MHz, and it managed just fine, albeit with much lower settings than my main rig.

your "old" rig is above the average skype user you know. heck, you know my rig and it doesnt come close.

Thought i got to say the resource hogging has actually gone down last year, which is a bonus i guess.

 

[The White Hunter]

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Well, I just tried my old dual core Pentium @3GHz/ATI 4770/3GB DDR3 @773MHz, and it managed just fine, albeit with much lower settings than my main rig.

your "old" rig is above the average skype user you know. heck, you know my rig and it doesnt come close.

Thought i got to say the resource hogging has actually gone down last year, which is a bonus i guess.

My 6 year old piece of shit is relatively overpowered? It was £350 bloody new.

I don't know your laptyop actually xD

 

[Strazdas]

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Well, I just tried my old dual core Pentium @3GHz/ATI 4770/3GB DDR3 @773MHz, and it managed just fine, albeit with much lower settings than my main rig.

your "old" rig is above the average skype user you know. heck, you know my rig and it doesnt come close.

Thought i got to say the resource hogging has actually gone down last year, which is a bonus i guess.

My 6 year old piece of shit is relatively overpowered? It was £350 bloody new.

I don't know your laptyop actually xD

2x3ghz is still more than average person has according to steam statistics. and steam is actually biased towards powerful computers and we must remember there are plenty people like my aunt whos sole purpose of PC is web briwsing and skype.
I have hard time believing you paid 350 for that 6 years ago. now - sure.

My 5 year old laptop is 2x2,4ghs (dual core duo intel centrino) with a 8600m GS and 4gb of DDR2 ram (dont remember frequency now, i think it was 666 or something like that, could be wrong).

 

[The White Hunter]

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Well, I just tried my old dual core Pentium @3GHz/ATI 4770/3GB DDR3 @773MHz, and it managed just fine, albeit with much lower settings than my main rig.

your "old" rig is above the average skype user you know. heck, you know my rig and it doesnt come close.

Thought i got to say the resource hogging has actually gone down last year, which is a bonus i guess.

My 6 year old piece of shit is relatively overpowered? It was £350 bloody new.

I don't know your laptyop actually xD

2x3ghz is still more than average person has according to steam statistics. and steam is actually biased towards powerful computers and we must remember there are plenty people like my aunt whos sole purpose of PC is web briwsing and skype.
I have hard time believing you paid 350 for that 6 years ago. now - sure.

My 5 year old laptop is 2x2,4ghs (dual core duo intel centrino) with a 8600m GS and 4gb of DDR2 ram (dont remember frequency now, i think it was 666 or something like that, could be wrong).

It costs £350 6 years ago, it's got a crap PSU and motherboard and the GPU was borrowed from a friend.

Skype does take up an unreasonable amount of power for what it is though, but half the CPU is abnormal, update it and try binding it to a single core if you have more than one.

 

[Strazdas]

I have hard time believing you paid 350 for that 6 years ago. now - sure.

My 5 year old laptop is 2x2,4ghs (dual core duo intel centrino) with a 8600m GS and 4gb of DDR2 ram (dont remember frequency now, i think it was 666 or something like that, could be wrong).

It costs £350 6 years ago, it's got a crap PSU and motherboard and the GPU was borrowed from a friend.

Skype does take up an unreasonable amount of power for what it is though, but half the CPU is abnormal, update it and try binding it to a single core if you have more than one.

Well, yeah, if you got a free GPU that changes things significantly. in this case i can udnerstand the price. anyway, we sort of hijacked this thread, hide before the mods show up.

i never tried binding skype to single core actually, i shoudl try it if its acting up. i got 2 cores after all, even though basically anything manages to use both of them now.

 

[The White Hunter]

I have hard time believing you paid 350 for that 6 years ago. now - sure.

My 5 year old laptop is 2x2,4ghs (dual core duo intel centrino) with a 8600m GS and 4gb of DDR2 ram (dont remember frequency now, i think it was 666 or something like that, could be wrong).

It costs £350 6 years ago, it's got a crap PSU and motherboard and the GPU was borrowed from a friend.

Skype does take up an unreasonable amount of power for what it is though, but half the CPU is abnormal, update it and try binding it to a single core if you have more than one.

Well, yeah, if you got a free GPU that changes things significantly. in this case i can udnerstand the price. anyway, we sort of hijacked this thread, hide before the mods show up.

i never tried binding skype to single core actually, i shoudl try it if its acting up. i got 2 cores after all, even though basically anything manages to use both of them now.

You'd be amazed how much stuff just ignores a multicore CPU still and sits squashing a single core.

I just had a really weird thing happen, windows forgot my HDD storage was there, then I rebooted, had some weirdness where windows explorer and my avp crashed and had to hard reset
and now it's seemingly fine?

Hmm. This is what I get for defragmenting things.

 

[Strazdas]

I just had a really weird thing happen, windows forgot my HDD storage was there, then I rebooted, had some weirdness where windows explorer and my avp crashed and had to hard reset
and now it's seemingly fine?

Hmm. This is what I get for defragmenting things.

hah, i remember those. windows not finding its file where it left it, panics and shuts down the drive. i remember i could hear the drive actually spin down on the loud drives as its being turned off. then only things that sit in ram works, mainly mosue cursor and anything thats just repeating same animation without needing to update.

i didnt knew that still happens, nice to see MS still not fixing that.

 

[The White Hunter]

I just had a really weird thing happen, windows forgot my HDD storage was there, then I rebooted, had some weirdness where windows explorer and my avp crashed and had to hard reset
and now it's seemingly fine?

Hmm. This is what I get for defragmenting things.

hah, i remember those. windows not finding its file where it left it, panics and shuts down the drive. i remember i could hear the drive actually spin down on the loud drives as its being turned off. then only things that sit in ram works, mainly mosue cursor and anything thats just repeating same animation without needing to update.

i didnt knew that still happens, nice to see MS still not fixing that.

Well my PC still worked cuz the OS and a bunch of other key stuff thats always on lives on my SSD but I tried to play some music and it was like I CANT FIND IT HALP!

 

[Strazdas]

I just had a really weird thing happen, windows forgot my HDD storage was there, then I rebooted, had some weirdness where windows explorer and my avp crashed and had to hard reset
and now it's seemingly fine?

Hmm. This is what I get for defragmenting things.

hah, i remember those. windows not finding its file where it left it, panics and shuts down the drive. i remember i could hear the drive actually spin down on the loud drives as its being turned off. then only things that sit in ram works, mainly mosue cursor and anything thats just repeating same animation without needing to update.

i didnt knew that still happens, nice to see MS still not fixing that.

Well my PC still worked cuz the OS and a bunch of other key stuff thats always on lives on my SSD but I tried to play some music and it was like I CANT FIND IT HALP!

at, i never had a non-primary hard drive do a trick like that. but i guess why not (zoidberg). that should have been quite scary till you got it back.

 

[The White Hunter]

I just had a really weird thing happen, windows forgot my HDD storage was there, then I rebooted, had some weirdness where windows explorer and my avp crashed and had to hard reset
and now it's seemingly fine?

Hmm. This is what I get for defragmenting things.

hah, i remember those. windows not finding its file where it left it, panics and shuts down the drive. i remember i could hear the drive actually spin down on the loud drives as its being turned off. then only things that sit in ram works, mainly mosue cursor and anything thats just repeating same animation without needing to update.

i didnt knew that still happens, nice to see MS still not fixing that.

Well my PC still worked cuz the OS and a bunch of other key stuff thats always on lives on my SSD but I tried to play some music and it was like I CANT FIND IT HALP!

at, i never had a non-primary hard drive do a trick like that. but i guess why not (zoidberg). that should have been quite scary till you got it back.

It was, all of my stuff is on that drive and the weird thing is it did it maybe an hour after I had defragged the drives and closed the tools. I'm gonna go grab a couple drives for replacement and redundancy and chalk it up to "random Windows stupidity".