Hello, For the past few hours, Brave 1.93.129 has been using an unusually high amount of CPU. When watching YouTube videos, CPU usage frequently exceeds 80%, and the browser becomes extremely slow. The issue appeared suddenly today. I had not changed any settings or installed anything recently. S…

brave://flags/ Choose ANGLE graphics backend set “D3D11”

me too i just noticed that brave using all my cpu when watching youtube videos and browser become laggy .. i think its a bad update i hope they fix it soon

What kind of system specifications do you have ? Same CPU ?

It doesn’t matter what specs i have. Cuz i was using brave just fine i then i noticed that pc is overheating after that i opened task manager and i saw that brave is using 100 % CPU and start lagging when opening videos i said WTF.. I restarted my pc. Reset settings but its still the same thing A…

It’s still an issue. Share System spec can help to focus the problem. Maybe it’s a problem with all AMD CPU ? Or just 9800X3D ? … I see no-one with the same problem except 3 people in total since Yesterday too. Maybe the problem is rare. Anyway, more informations : this is my 2 task manager (…

I just turned on my pc and checked brave and i opened 2 tabs with YouTube videos and cpu use is okay and brave not lagging at all it fixed for me I have a macbook air 2015 Intel I5 525OU @1.60 ghz RAM 4 DDR3 SSD 256 GB GPU 1.5 VRAM

It work ! TY ! Doesn’t fix all the problem, but it’s much better ! Now I’m at 5% (better than 90% haha but still more than 1%) I change ANGLE graphics backend from “D3D11 WARP” to “D3D11” !

Hello I have had the same issue, I will list my specs below. Changing the flag setting does help but If I change the flag setting my HDR will malfunction and all videos will be reddish. CPU: I9-9900K GPU: RTX 2080 RAML 32 GB DDR4

After the update to Brave 1.93.129 official build, I found that a majority of the previous set flags were set to utilize chrome AI features and it was downloading the optimization guide / AI model. My search was even set to Chrome instead of Brave. Feels like the developers are just rolling out bra…

the 100 cpu is back again .. i tried the flag setting but nothing happened brave developpers need to fix this for us we need a new fix update

[image] Brave v1.90.22 LAGGING hard due to D3D11 Hardware Acceleration ANGLE Browser Feedback Brave had severe video stuttering for me too recently, slow-motion playback, and general lag whenever hardware acceleration used the default D3D11 ANGLE backend. Swit…

Brave 1.93.129 suddenly using all of my CPU

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