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THEG72
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6 years ago

High Power Usage since November 2019 Power BI Desktop Update very SLOW!

Hi Community, The last couple of updates have made Power BI desktop extremely slow.

 

I have a surface Book2 and its consistently throttling the fan speed and putting a load on power?

 

Has anyone else seen this strange behaviour or know any fixes or things to try?

Even my small models are extremely sluggish when navigating visuals and the desktop is really not useable in this released version. A was a lot better last month.. ?

 

Are there any tips for improving this..here is the task manager screenshot

 

November Power BI desktop sucking my power up :(

Need Help

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    • THEG72's avatar
      THEG72
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      6 years ago

      YasirBilal 

      What does your power usage say? it's not listed in the screenshot you took.

       

      Also, I had both the Windows Store App and desktop versions of Power BI desktop installed on Windows 10 surface book.

       

      I uninstalled all versions of power bi desktop and did a windows 10 update to get some updates.

       

      Will reboot and reinstall and test both the App from the Windows Store and then test the direct download of exe file too.

       

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    YasirBilal
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    6 years ago

    Sorry About that

    i took Another One Take A look

    i'm also using latest Version of Power Bi Desktop

    i Do Download From Mircosoft Store

     

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    6 years ago

    Hi THEG72 ,

    Did this issue appear on all of your pbix files? I'd like to suggest you create a simple pbix file without large amount of records and complex Dax calculation formulas to confirm this scenario.

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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      THEG72
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      6 years ago

      Anonymous  appreciate your feedback. If there is no load (ie small file) in the model there is no problem.

       

      It was working fine with previous months update. So looks like i will revert back and try next months version and wait for next update.

       

      Thanks again for you help.!

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        Hi THEG72 ,

        It sounds like power bi team changes the logic of internal formulas calculation and causes the 'high power usage' issues.
        In my opinion, I'd like to suggest you can contact to power bi team to report this scenario. (notice: you can attach your device information to help them to confirm if this is a common or specific device optimization issues)

        Regards,

        Xiaoxin Sheng