I might be causing my own problem here by insisting on running Windows Server 2016 as my OS for Blue Iris, but alas that is what I have set up. I have been dealing with poor BI performance on my old hardware which was a very old i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge), and I assumed that was the problem. So...
I've tried just about everything, I cannot get my system to run smoothly since upgrading to BI5's later builds (say a month or two ago).... The only thing I have found to get my CPU manageable is to check "limit decoding unless required" on every camera... otherwise my CPU spikes to 100% and is...
Hoping someone can assist.
I'm running Blue Iris with 22 Cams - most are 4mp Hikvision. I have adjusted the settings so most have low frame rates and resolution. I have tried almost every idea i've read on this site to get the cpu usage low but just can't seem to keep it down.
When I run...
Hey folks....
So I've managed to get my systems all nicely tuned (with alot of help from this forum), and now have my BI installs running at a nice CPU load of between 35% and 45% depending on the machine (i9 to i7 respectively).
However, I've noticed something odd...those numbers spike up by...
Hey Folks...Happy New Year to all!
Got myself a new rig for Xmas and I wanted to see how BI would perform on this new monster CPU. The Intel Core i9-7980XE is by all accounts severe overkill for most applications. But during my last upgrade cycle (about 2 years ago), I went through the same...
Microsoft released KB4056892 on January 3, 2018 to address the Meltdown and Spectre CPU issues. This fix basically removes speculative execution from the CPU and made some major changes to the OS. Kernel calls just became more expensive for all applications, especially applications that use a...