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MP3 - General / Re: Resurrecting/Preserving the Helix MP3 encoder
Last post by KevinB52379 -Good to know. There are no longer many options that can cause the issue you are facing. I think antivirus or other security product that scans or sandboxes executables is the only thing that can do this.
The converter in foobar2000 uses very low priority by default and you said you haven't increased it. These encoders don't touch priorities so they do their tasks with leftover cycles. Memory consumption is no different between compiles.
You must have some high priority process(es) running on the same core as the UI processes and steal all the processing power from the UI operations. Or a sandbox goes haywire and consumes all the system memory. Swapping will make machine slow even with SSD.
Hi @Case - I can provide some more information if you'd like.
1. I use AVG Internet Security as my security suite. In AVG I have excluded my foobar2000 directory (I use foobar in portable mode). At one point, I even disabled realtime protection before encoding to see if this helped, nothing changed. Would you like me to try uinstalling AVG?
2. As I stated, I have an HP Pavilion with AMD Ryzen 7 5700g, and I'm using the integrated graphics. I cannot install a dedicated graphics card as the system is limited to a 180 watt PSU and the motherboard and power supply use proprietary connections. My system also has 32GB DDR4 3200 RAM (this is the max capacity and the RAM is matching). I'm using a 1TB Samsung 980 SSD (PCIe Gen3).
3. As stated, I do use a screen magnification program called Zoomtext, and I thought for sure this was the culprit, but even when this program is shut down, I still have these issues.
4. I do use a program called Process Lasso - this program is supposed to prevent the system from slowing down. Now that I think about this, maybe I should try uninstalling this to see if this is the culprit too.
P.S. I do think it's interesting though that no other encoders with foobar cause this issue, don't you? Or that Joshua's build and your 32 bit build work as expected.