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omnia360
Inspiring
December 5, 2025

Media Encoder is rendering extremly slow as Background Task

  • December 5, 2025
  • 4 replies
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Hi!
I have recently bought a new PC (Intel Core i7 14700K, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 64GB DDR5 RAM) and since then I can't use Adobe Media Encoder as a background task anymore. The rendering speed is about 20 times slower when I just open Photoshop or Premiere and AME is minimized compared to AME being in front. 

CPU ad GPU usage drops significantly when AME runs in the background as the following screenhots show:

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On my old PC I have never experienced anything like that, so I wonder if there is some setting that might be responsible for that behavior?

4 replies

omnia360
omnia360Author
Inspiring
January 8, 2026

I haven't been in the Office for a while, so please excuse my late response.

No, it is not enough to keep AME visible. It must be the active window (highlighted in the taskbar) in order to render properly. Even opening an explorer window on the second monitor slows down the rendering.

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 22, 2025

Does it help to keep the AME window visible?

omnia360
omnia360Author
Inspiring
December 16, 2025

Thank you for your suggestions!

The efficiency mode was already disabled. I enabled "Best Performance", enabled "Prefer Maximum Performance" and installed the latest driver but unfortunately nothing solved the issue.

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 10, 2025

1. Did you disable Windows “Efficiency Mode” for AME? (See Task Manager → Details → right-click Adobe Media Encoder.exe → disable Efficiency mode)
2. Is Windows “High Performance” mode enabled? (see Settings → System → Power → “Best Performance”)

3. Did you change NVIDIA Power Management Mode? (See NVIDIA Control Panel → Manage 3D Settings →
Set “Power management mode” to Prefer maximum performance)
4. Did you update to latest Studio driver?