Website uses 65% of brand new computer's GPU for no good reason

[jadenquinn]

This is through the web browser Firefox. Not tested with anything else. All I'm doing is downloading albums, and I have the site set to "performance mode".

[binimum]

The website does use a lot of GPU (I’m looking into it when I have time) however Apple’s Activity Monitor doesn’t measure the total percentage out of 100 - rather out of how many cores you have (for example JDownloader2 is using more than 100% of your CPU).

If you want less usage, you can try the “Performance” mode in the settings.

[tmatzxzone]

no wonder my phone heated up when trying this before. this is set to performance mode, still managed to make my gpu fan spin, hope you will optimized it later in the future.

[TheKevinGDX]

The GPU usage is excessive even when using Performance mode.

[hashhar]

Seems to be from the GLSL shaders for the background - I'm not an expert but I'll dig into it.

In the meantime you can open devtool and search for .webgl-background and delete that HTML node as a workaround.

[binimum]

Thanks for looking into it @hashhar - to be honest I don’t fully understand how it works either, I copied it from another project that also supplies the APIs for the lyrics. For that reason I neatly contained it into one file to prevent it from fully jamming up the workspace.

[nyanvil]

the blur is excessive and should be removed. im surprised nobody mentioned how awfully vibecoded the interface looks. great website if we disregard this fact though

[nyanvil]

im surprised nobody mentioned how awfully vibecoded the interface looks

"sailing on PCM tidal waves" if this doesnt convince you that its vibecoded then nothing else will

[binimum]

hey i spent ages thinking of that please 🙏

yeah its half ai half 11pm lock ins

[binimum]

I'm pretty sure the performance loss in Performance mode is because of the WebGL interface still being loaded even when it is not being shown, as @hashhar says. I don't do have the time to fix it

[sliipkat]

yeah. i still dont get the point of adding the blur and other trinkets when it makes the website lag on certain devices.
i have to use a custom userstyle to make it usable.

[binimum]

See if Performance mode uses a bit less GPU now on music.binimum.org - it should automatically discard the WebGL in Performance.

[kobayashi90]

Fixed with #118 tho Webkit Browsers like Chrome might have technical problems still. Working on that soon.

[jadenquinn]

The website does use a lot of GPU (I’m looking into it when I have time) however Apple’s Activity Monitor doesn’t measure the total percentage out of 100 - rather out of how many cores you have (for example JDownloader2 is using more than 100% of your CPU).

If you want less usage, you can try the “Performance” mode in the settings.

It does for the GPU, and I'm already on performance mode. Still uses way more than it should. This is on Firefox.

[jadenquinn]

A website like this shouldn't be using more than like 10%.... right? This is a very serious bug. As someone who HAS to work off of battery a lot, this is a serious drawback, and unlike what everyone else uses this tool for, I actually use it for work.