lucascaju

I just don't know for how long the discussion of high CPU usage or performance impact will keep having people making excuses for its validity, even when is already scoring articles in journals and YouTube channels. There are several demonstrations that is affecting game performance in the perception of many people, which by the way are Corsair consumers. This is happening on a variety hardware, being old or new, across multiple years, even affecting idling expected behavior of many models, especially related to Ryzen processors. Oh, it's software RGB control, oh, you should minimize to the tray. This seems to me a very "old Apple mentality", that the users are using wrongly. Dear Corsair engineers, I know that software development is hard sometimes (I am a developer too), especially related to optimizations, but you guys should at least engage your community leaders to create a fixed thread to discuss this issue recognizing that is affecting performance, usability, for a variety of people, like discussed in many threads. Claims come from CPU clock behavior, other software performance impact, YouTube stuttering, disk usage, fps drops and more. And this especially glaring when you instead of trying to deliver a superior solution to the services you create, to provide the functionalities people want, for controlling RGB and all the Corsair goodies, you introduce another services that can further exacerbate the perceptual performance impact. Please stop creating excuses to not look this as a problem, or thinking that is good enough, listen to your many consumers that are unhappy for many years with this particular issue. Do not think that those users are annoying, oh this level % usage, you should not worry about, go play your games. Sure, for some people this is not affecting on their usability, but for others are. The speech of that CPU is old is completely lame, to not say untrue to the case shown. So, I wish this community were moving forward with this, but no, stuck on the same arguments you should not think like that, this is your vision. Of course, for the people that are knowledgeable they can provide more concrete evidence, but this issue is your responsibility and should take more seriously, especially now that iCue is aggregating other companies products, like Asus, that also have their own plethora of problems. Sure, the title "iCue or iCancer" is exaggerated, but just shows how frustrated the community is.

Just a update on disk usage, using 3.22.74. Through the period of 7 days the total disk usage was 70.8GB, so arround 10GB per day, that's HUGE!. Please someone at dev team look at that, This may be one of the culprits for "high cpu usage" at idle.

One big dislike for me is resource consumption. It's by far the most cpu consumption in relation to the competition. Seriously, this is TERRIBLE! Some cpus can't go to idle because of this. And now I discovered, that also uses too much disk over time, and I am talking about writing on disk. I measured, and in 3 days write 14GB. This is VERY HIGH, and I don't have Hardware widget or logging enabled. This also is not counting any iCUE downloads. This is not ideal for SSDs over time.

The Hard Drive Widget is disabled. I maded another test and now shows almost 14GB in 3 days. This is REALLY bad, a application like that should not be consuming that much without a logging or HD monitoring enabled.

The iCUE still have high CPU usage in comparison too other apps with monitoring and/or lightning control, but now I noticed that the iCUE also have HIGH disk usage over time. In one day using the task manager detail tabs, I/O Write Bytes, showed 8.1GB (3.8 from Corsair Service, 2.8 from Corsair Service.CpuIdRemove64 and 1,5 from iCUE) , that's very high. I know that I/O includes more than file, but also network, but the network consumption is low for the Corsair processes. I even looked to the Kaspersky app monitor and also showed HIGH disk usage over time, using the 8GB in one and half day (time activity). I am talking about write usage on the disk, not disk time usage which is low, but the processes over time writes too much on the disk. I am using the version 3.18.77, with logging disabled, and this usage does not account the app downloading newer versions. First we have the CPU usage that is still high, and I don't know why the iCUE needs to be running for lightning works, why not only the corsair service process? I really complain about this beacause causes a ton of problems with multiple users. And now I discover this HIGH disk write usage over time because I did noticed a sudden increase on my SSD TBW. One reason is due to youtube videos, which is understandable, but the other was the iCUE which is not fine, specially because logging is disabled.