High load on computer resources, slow Brave

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After a few months of torment, I quit this browser. Brave is causing my computer’s performance problems. While using Brave there are system freezes, it runs slowly and there is 100% disk usage. Brave community entries are closed after a while without any help. I also have Opera, Opera GX, Chrome, Firefox and Edge installed on my computer. Only Brave causes problems. Sad to say, but it’s a really useless browser with non-existent tech support.

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Hey @urbie

youtube will use your GPU (if acceleration is enabled).

  • What GPU do you have?
  • Does turning off GPU acceleration via brave://settings/system
  • Disable all extensions
  • Re-test performance
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Hey @Arkpra Have you tried a clean profile? Try using Brave Beta as a test, no extensions. Then how does it perfom?

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Hey, thanks for your reply. I’ve tried everything. Nothing works. I have a weaker computer (Amd Phenom and GTX 1050, 8 GB memory), so saving resources is important to me. Other browsers don’t burden my computer as much as brave. I’ve been trying to fix the brave problem since November 2020. No result.

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1050 is a bit low end (I have a 1660Ti in my laptop), GPU performance might still be okay. Though maybe 1080p would the most i’d try for without pushing resources.

I would ensure you have the latest GPU drivers, you could try tweaking the following to see if it helps.

brave://flags/#disable-accelerated-2d-canvas
brave://flags/#zero-copy-video-capture
brave://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode
brave://flags/#enable-vulkan

Maybe disable vuklan, and disable-accelerated-2d-canvas as a start

Check stats for nerds and GPU task manager, with just youtube playing. Stick with 1080p playback

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I’ll try, but it’s hard for me to believe it’s a GPU. Resource Monitor shows 3% GPU usage. High consumption is on the disk and CPU. This consumption shows even with 1 tab open, regular web, without multimedia and videos.

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Was responding to the other user having issues in the same thread, I wouldn’t say its a GPU issue for yourself

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