# Plexamp Visualizations and High GPU Utilization **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Created:** [January 31, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732 "2018-01-31T15:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ViewingImpaired](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/viewingimpaired/32/8586_2.png) [@ViewingImpaired](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ViewingImpaired)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/1 "2018-01-31T15:35:20Z")
First, I loved Winamp back in the day and I love Plexamp today…nice job! Anyone suffer from performance problems when the Vizualizations are on? I’ve found my MS Surface Pro 3 struggles when I have vizualizations on with 95-100% GPU utilization. Definite lag when performing other tasks, etc. I’m running Windows 10 x64 with 8GB memory and an i7-4650U 2.3GHz CPU. Should I not expect this hardware / configuration to be able to use visualizations? ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/b/f/bfc8f6590b862bf10004ba2792873ed2072d4bbf.png) ---
**Author:** ![WikiCopter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@WikiCopter](https://forums.plex.tv/u/WikiCopter)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/2 "2018-01-31T17:54:34Z")
That’s weird… what visualizations are you using? I’m not getting any high usage, but I must confess that I use a GTX 1060 in my rig xD ---
**Author:** ![ViewingImpaired](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/viewingimpaired/32/8586_2.png) [@ViewingImpaired](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ViewingImpaired)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/3 "2018-01-31T19:59:08Z")
Tahitian Pearl…I haven’t checked the utilization on others but I do recall a slow down when I was scrolling through to pick the one I liked the best. ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/4 "2018-01-31T21:25:02Z")
That visualizer is the most expensive one by far; if you like seeing real-time ray-marching with soft shadows and such, there’s no real getting around it. It’s amazing it’s even _POSSIBLE_ to do this stuff in real time. Bottom line ~ we wanted to provide some fun visualizers which really pushed the limits of GPUs. If you don’t have a super powerful GPU, or don’t want to incur the resource expense, pick a different one 😅 ---
**Author:** ![ViewingImpaired](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/viewingimpaired/32/8586_2.png) [@ViewingImpaired](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ViewingImpaired)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/5 "2018-01-31T21:32:00Z")
Confirmed…after playing around a bit with the others I find them much more tolerable resource-wise…_le sigh_ as usual, I like the one that is too expensive for my means… ☹ :’( Ha! Thanks for the help ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-visualizations-and-high-gpu-utilization/223732/6 "2020-01-08T01:38:40Z")
Closed on January 8, 2020, 1:38am UTC