High CPU without cams

[coldventura]

I recently acquired a used Optiplex 7050 with a i5 6500 CPU to pair with my 2 Hikvision cameras that I've been using without an NVR for the past year. After installing Blue Iris as a VM in Proxmox and then attempting to use it bare metal, I'm seeing significant CPU usage even without any cameras added on a fresh Windows 10 installation.

I've followed the guides for reducing CPU usage (with and without the cameras added), of course it's lower without them but hitting near 100% CPU usage when allocated 2 cores and no cameras seems odd to me.

Edit: Prior to purchasing the Optiplex I tested BI as a VM on my PC and it seemed fine even when allocated even a single core and 2GB of memory.

 

[alastairstevenson]

What does windows task manager show for the offending high CPU processes?

 

[coldventura]

What does windows task manager show for the offending high CPU processes?

The Blue Iris application

 

[wittaj]

Not sure what impact it has a VM in Proxmox, but I am leaning towards that or some driver issue associated with the VM.

Even a 4th gen running BI with no cameras enabled will sit at 0%.

I assume because you are using a VM that you plan to use the box for other things? For testing assign the entire CPU to BI and see what happens.

Maybe try to delete and reinstall BI?

 

[coldventura]

Not sure what impact it has a VM in Proxmox, but I am leaning towards that or some driver issue associated with the VM.

Even a 4th gen running BI with no cameras enabled will sit at 0%.

I assume because you are using a VM that you plan to use the box for other things? For testing assign the entire CPU to BI and see what happens.

Maybe try to delete and reinstall BI?

I also tried installing it bare metal on Windows 10 and had more than 0% usage without cameras, both were completely fresh installs of Windows and BI

 

[wittaj]

Something is certainly wrong!

By fresh installs, I assume you mean with the Windows Media Creation Tool that eliminates the computer manufacturer bloatware, or was it a "fresh" install from the recovery on the drive?

 

[coldventura]

Something is certainly wrong!

By fresh installs, I assume you mean with the Windows Media Creation Tool that eliminates the computer manufacturer bloatware, or was it a "fresh" install from the recovery on the drive?

Yeah. I'm not sure what's causing it, I've even tried Windows Server