Microsoft Teams may demand a lot from your processor. We regularly come across stories of users complaining about slow PCs when Teams is running. Fortunately, there are options to prevent this from happening in the future. That’s how you get it done.
The fact that Microsoft Teams sometimes demands so much from your computer is due to the way the program is structured. Teams is built on the Electron platform, a free and open source software framework designed by GitHub. Among other things, it enables the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies.
The platform also loads several libraries directly in the background, which means that it demands a lot from the processor. In addition, corrupted application files or compatibility issues can throw a spanner in the works.
Before we dive deeper into the matter, we would do well to check if there are no updates available. Check if there is an update for Windows or Microsoft Teams and install it if necessary. Then see if the problems persist. Is that the case? Then we look further.
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Microsoft Teams demands a lot from the processor
The first part we look at is GPU hardware acceleration. Indeed, it can help to activate that option when it is not active, so that the program consumes less resources. Open Microsoft Teams and press the three dashes at the top. Go to General and put a check next to Disable GPU hardware acceleration†Now restart Teams.
Now go back to the same window and uncheck Register Teams as Office’s chat app away, if it were there. Microsoft Teams is then less addressed by the system, which immediately reduces the pressure on the processor. Even now you have to close and restart Teams to notice the difference.
Another part of Microsoft Teams that consumes a lot of processing power is the part Read receipts†You will find this under Settings > Privacy, and then somewhere in the middle of the window. Move the slider to the left so that the button takes on the color of the background. Because Teams no longer has to constantly check whether someone is reading your messages, it consumes less processing power. Now restart the program once.
Clear cache
It may also help to clear the cache. Ironically, that cache helps the program do its job faster. However, when data gets corrupted here, the opposite is true.
You clear the cache by going to the app installation files. Open To carry out by pressing the Windows key + R, then enterr %appdata% and press OK†Go to Microsoft and then teams and delete everything from the folders blob_storage, Cache, GPUcache and databases†Hopefully the problem is now resolved.
Nope? Then try uninstalling and reinstalling Teams.
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