PLEX Player install on a new PC now taking 5 minutes to open

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Server Version#: 1.22.0.4136
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Hi,

Due to issues I had upgrading an older to PC to the latest Windows 10 version, I decide to bite the bullet and buy a new new PC. Maybe I bit off more of that bullet than I could chew.

I’ve found using this high resolution monitor is some apps can take up to 5 minutes to open! Apps like all Office ones (Outlook etc), Adobe Lightroom and most others work just fine, opening immediately and working just as well on the new PC as they did on the old one. Some apps like PLEX Player however take around 5 minutes to open. When I launch PLEX Player it appears in Task manager immediately but doesn’t display anything on screen for around the 5 minutes, they then works OK.

It’s difficult to try and understand where the fault lies. As this only happens on the new PC, with the 3840 x 2160 display, I’m not sure if the problem is with…

Is it the PLEX app itself, i.e. it is having difficultly with displaying on the high res screen.

The video driver that came with the PC (Video is Intel Iris Xe Graphics adapter)

A Windows 10 issue

I noticed that the video driver Digital Signature is “Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher” (Driver date 28/10/2020, version 27.20.100.8395). As this suggests some compatibility stuff is going on with this driver I thought I’d ask this question here first.

Does anyone have any thoughts about why PLEX is taking so long to load?

Thanks
PS: I have the same problem with iTunes, but would be pointless trying to get Apple to respond to problems with iTunes on a PC.

[segagamer]

You can thank the Plex team choosing to ditch building an app specifically for Windows/Mac, to instead use this QT Engine acting as the middle-man, that’s as bad as Chromium in terms of resource usage and usability.

Can’t get over the fact that when streaming music on my laptop, Plex now takes up 20% of my CPU, 40% of my GPU and nearly 450MB RAM, with an extremely unresponsive interface. Not to mention the awful way of doing updates compared to before. For a music player, it’s absolutely terrible compared to before.