Why does Teams use so much Memory and CPU power?
Here are some reasons for Teams to use so much memory and CPU power.
Microsoft Teams high Memory and CPU usage
Here are a few suggestions that may help you resolve high memory and CPU usage issues for Microsoft Teams: Let us look at these methods in more detail.
1] Disable hardware acceleration in Teams
Launch Microsoft Teams and open Settings.Click on the GeneralDisable GPU hardware acceleration.Right-click on the Teams icon in the systems tray and close the program.Select Refresh by right-clicking on your desktop.Restart Teams and check for any improvements.In some cases, disabling Teams as a chat app for the office may also help. Hence, go back to the General tab in Settings and disable Register Teams as the chat app for Office.
2] Turning off Read Receipts
You can also reduce the high memory and CPU usage by disabling read receipts in Teams.
3] Clear the Teams Cache
Sometimes, Microsoft Teams may also randomly access files that are stored in the cache folder. To avoid the same, you can clear the Teams cache.
Press Windows + R to open the Run window.Type %appdata% and press Enter.Go to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams.Delete only the files within the following folders: tmp folder, blob_storage, cache, GPUcache, databases, and local storage.In the IndexedDB folder, only delete the .db file.Close Microsoft Teams and then restart your computer.
4] Disable Teams Add-In Outlook
5] Close background programs
To preserve CPU power, you can close all programs running in the background. Hence, Microsoft Teams can go ahead and use as much CPU power, as it needs.
6] Adjust visual effects
Go to Start and search for “adjust performance” with the Windows Search bar.Click on Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows.Choose the Visual EffectsSelect the Adjust for the best performance option. It will disable video effects and animations.Restart your computer
7] Increase the Page file size
You can manually adjust the page file size value to improve CPU performance.
Use the Windows Search bar to search for SystemPropertiesAdvanced.Click on Settings in the PerformanceFurther, click again on the AdvancedUnder Virtual Memory, click on the Change buttonUncheck the Automatically managing paging file size for all drives.Choose Custom Size and then manually set up the page file size you need.16 GB is recommended.
Save and apply changes. Relaunch Teams and see if it helps.
8] Uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Teams
If nothing helps, you could completely uninstall Microsoft Teams and fresh install it and see. We hope that these solutions help you in fixing the high memory and CPU usage for Microsoft Teams. Please let us know if any of this helps you. Related post: Microsoft Teams crashing or freezing during meetings.
