Seriously, I cannot express how much I appreciate you taking the time to talk with me.
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I have a dedicate PC running only the latest
Blue Iris and Windows 10 Pro (64bit).
- CPU: i7-3770k,
- 8G ram,
- 4 hard drives (1-OS, 2-main Blue Iris hard drive, 3-Hard drive for License Plate Capture camera 1 and now "Dark Knight camera", 4-Hard drive dedicated to License Plate Capture camera 2) Each hard drive is connected via eSata cables.
- 12 total cameras. (differing models of Hikvison)
- Resolutions vary but most are 4MP. Two are 6MP, and newest one is 2MP.
- The Cameras themselves are set so that the i-Frame and fps are the same.
- Blue Iris is set to 20MB receive buffer.
- All set "Direct to Disk"
- Windows Firewall is set to all BlueIris.
- I just set an exclusion in "Windows Defender" to (BlueIris)
- (is this the correct way to identify it and its processes? I went to Processes/Exclude a .exe, .com or .scr process, and added the word "BlueIris")
CPU runs at 50% with 11 cameras.
CPU runs at 50-70% with 12 cameras (Highest at night, with 4 cameras grouped to trigger)
CPU runs at 90+% with 13 cameras (I just recently added a Hikvision DS-2CD6026FHWD-A3, Ultra-Dark vision camera (named Dark Knight))