I was in the sim today ready to fly out of Flightbeam KSFO and it was a slide show. FPS fluctuating between 6 and low teens. OK, I thought this region, SO. Cal and all, San Francisco, it is not normally the best on FPS, or maybe it was the Aerosoft CRJ Pro. Then I opened Task manager out of curiosity and lo and behold Amazon Photos was hogging 82% of my CPU. This is the first time I have ever noticed this. I googled it and it seems it is a very common issue if you use Amazon Cloud Backup. I do not know if there is a remedy for this other than removing the app from my machine. As an Amazon Prime member I am entitled to Unlimited cloud storage, so I used it. Of course I am not going to discard all my precious photo memories over this, but it sure would be nice to know if anyone else has experienced this and might have a solution to the issue. Anyway I killed the application and what do you know 35 - 50 FPS,  I use Unlimited, I'm happy for now, but what the heck, this totally took me by surprise, If not for the slideshow I would never have known.

Regards

Edited November 26, 20205 yr by TomCYYZ

Before starting the sim use task manager to end task and shut down what you do not need running, i use a custom start up and stop some programs from running on boot up.

Thanks, yes, I remember I used a similar program back in the FSX days. I’ll be more wary from now on with what is running on my system when P3D’ing. But, Amazon photos using 80% of my processing resources is astounding, Wow! 

Edited November 26, 20205 yr by TomCYYZ

I just received an email from Amazon sent out to Prime Customers. It stated that Amazon was experiencing service disruptions to customers and they have since fully restored the service. What I suspect was that  Amazon was re uploading all my files to their servers.  So, hopefully this was a one off.