Possible long thread.New user needs help

[fahl]

Old/disabled/housebound.
Using Blue Iris to watch local wildlife & security.
my pc specs.

Motherboard: OptiPlex 7010

Basic I/O System(BIOS): BIOS Date: 06/28/18 15:31:46 Ver: A29.00

Central Processing Unit(CPU): Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

Physical Memory X 2

8GB

8GB

Hard Disk X 2

SanDisk SSD PLUS 480GB SCSI Disk Device (447.1GB)

WDC WD10EURX-63FH1Y0 SCSI Disk Device (0.9TB)

Video Card X 2

Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

Running wndows 7 Ultimate x64

Blue Iris 5.0.6.8 x64 installed & working reasonably ok but gettin occasional orang clock on gui.

Would appreciate some advice on what to changee & where to optimise performance etc,

Thanks in advance.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Have a look in the WiKi, in the blue bar at the top of the page. There's a whole document discussing hardware and another discussing optimizing in there.

 

[SouthernYankee]

for a start a few screen shots form BI and the windows system. (on the windows screen shots not sure about windows 7, it has been a long time)

1) windows task manager process tab sorted by memory
2) Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph,upper left corner) clip storage tab
3) blue Iris status cameras tab

read

Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage

Blue Iris uses a lot of CPU time. In most Blue Iris installations, your CPU is the limiting factor which determines how many cameras you can have. As such, it is extremely important to optimize your configuration to ensure you can get the most out of your system while consuming the least...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[fahl]

Thanks,Working my way through this slowly
My cpu is at13% And Ram is at1.04G
Only have 6 cameras