Kjams suddenly using 95% CPU when playing

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acemc
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Kjams suddenly using 95% CPU when playing

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I've never experienced this before, but tonight I arrived at the venue, started up SeratoDj, thereafter started up kjams.
It seemed like everything was fine until I noticed the cpu meter in SeratoDj running into the red. I opened up activity monitor & noticed kjams sitting at 95% cpu.
When I stop playing a song, the cpu drops to about 40%, but as soon as I play another song it goes back up to between 90 & 95% no matter what song I play.
I have no idea what I did to cause this, but it never gave me issues in the past, so I really doubt it's the actual application at fault here.
Anyway the night still went through without a hitch, just the lyrics seemed to lag a bit (I sped them up though). Any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks in advance.

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Re: Kjams suddenly using 95% CPU when playing

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if you're just playing CDG it should be fine. what makes the CPU heat up is "high quality CDG playback" and playing "movie" files. this is actually normal, for now.

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Re: Kjams suddenly using 95% CPU when playing

Post by acemc »

Thanks for the prompt response Dave.
I only play cdg files when using Kjams. Any video files that I have, I play through Serato.
I haven't been doing any exporting for reasons in my other post (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).
So just to confirm, is this normal & I just never noticed it before? :shock:

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Re: Kjams suddenly using 95% CPU when playing

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I think it is normal. Try turning off "high quality"

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