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I like my background programs to run lean, is EQWatcher Evolution wasting resources?

April 26, 2017background eqwatcher Evolution Lean Programs Resources run wasting

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I like my background programs to run lean, is EQWatcher Evolution wasting resources?

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EQWatcher is designed to run with as little resources as possible for the work that it does. In testing with default functionality, EQWatcher uses a maximum of about 6.5mb of memory (hit during initialization and version checking) but generally less than 1mb. For comparison purposes, “Explorer.EXE” in Windows XP is currently using 11.3mb of memory. Functionality like MP3 playing and Text-to-Speech piggybacks on other services (Winamp, SAPI), and is only used on demand — there is no MP3 decompression or TTS rendering built into EQWatcher Evolution.