Awesomium core.exe - Garry's Mod

Hello I was playing Garry's Mod until the game suddenly froze and my PC too. My Pc was completely stuck for 5 minutes. Then i got open my task manager and there was over 72 awesomium cores running. I read that it's some thing that is mostly in Valves games. What is it exactly and do i really need it?

I doubt you had 72 instances of awesomium, Awesomium is only a lightweight web browser.

[QUOTE=Laamapalmu;43985328]Hello I was playing Garry's Mod until the game suddenly froze and my PC too. My Pc was completely stuck for 5 minutes. Then i got open my task manager and there was over 72 awesomium cores running. I read that it's some thing that is mostly in Valves games. What is it exactly and do i really need it?[/QUOTE] It has nothing to do with Valve. [URL="http://www.awesomium.com/"]Awesomium[/URL] is based on Chromium (what Google Chrome uses) and is used for the menu, as well as many other things in GMod. Something I noticed with both with Awesomium and Chromium is that they like to open a lot of processes. It's not something you can really control, and you've just got to restart every once in a while.

[QUOTE=code_gs;43990620]It has nothing to do with Valve. [URL="http://www.awesomium.com/"]Awesomium[/URL] is based on Chromium (what Google Chrome uses) and is used for the menu, as well as many other things in GMod. Something I noticed is both with Awesomium and Chromium is that they like to open a lot of processes. It's not something you can really control, and you've just got to restart every once in a while.[/QUOTE] This explains why the game is poorly optimized.

And it never works properly on mac, like most steam games. Oh well.

Awesomium is about as light weight as a lead brick. I remember back on my old computer that alone choked the hell out of it.

[QUOTE=Laamapalmu;43985328]Hello I was playing Garry's Mod until the game suddenly froze and my PC too. My Pc was completely stuck for 5 minutes. Then i got open my task manager and there was over 72 awesomium cores running. I read that it's some thing that is mostly in Valves games. What is it exactly and do i really need it?[/QUOTE] I've had this problem also. After some time you might be receiving bsod watchdog violation bluescreens assuming your on windows 8. I solved it by updating the drivers for my SSD and Graphics Card.

[QUOTE=TheMrFailz;44059287]Awesomium is about as light weight as a lead brick. I remember back on my old computer that alone choked the hell out of it.[/QUOTE] Awesomium likes to eat up my 2GB of DDR2...it makes me quite mad, to say the least.

Good Lord, What do you people do?? Even on addon-heavy servers and PAC3 (which uses the hell out of Awesomium because of the ability to use custom textures, oggs, and models from web) I only ever have two processes (one for the main menu, one for everything else) and the "everything else" one has only ever used 1.2GB in a 5+ hour session. I'm not saying any of you are inherently doing anything wrong... I'm just bloody curious.

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;44077001]Good Lord, What do you people do?? Even on addon-heavy servers and PAC3 (which uses the hell out of Awesomium because of the ability to use custom textures, oggs, and models from web) I only ever have two processes (one for the main menu, one for everything else) and the "everything else" one has only ever used 1.2GB in a 5+ hour session. I'm not saying any of you are inherently doing anything wrong... I'm just bloody curious.[/QUOTE] Whenever awesomium does ANYTHING for me, it uses up a lot of RAM for me, I swear there's some memory leak I don't know about or how to prevent it, maybe those children's servers that play loads of DABSTAP on join are the issue, I honestly don't know.

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;44077001]Good Lord, What do you people do?? Even on addon-heavy servers and PAC3 (which uses the hell out of Awesomium because of the ability to use custom textures, oggs, and models from web) I only ever have two processes (one for the main menu, one for everything else) and the "everything else" one has only ever used 1.2GB in a 5+ hour session. I'm not saying any of you are inherently doing anything wrong... I'm just bloody curious.[/QUOTE] awesomium is for the main menu and gui shit, not for custom textures and lua scripts

[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;44080287]awesomium is for the main menu and gui shit, not for custom textures and lua scripts[/QUOTE] PAC3, and a few other addons, use Awesomium to grab textures from the web using Panel.GetHTMLMaterial. I wouldn't be surprised if it also grabbed Lua scripts from the web in some way either. Also, the reason why PAC3 doesn't create a ton of Awesomium instances is because CapsAdmin was smart about it and used a limited pool of them.

[QUOTE=samm5506;44080356]PAC3, and a few other addons, use Awesomium to grab textures from the web using Panel.GetHTMLMaterial. I wouldn't be surprised if it also grabbed Lua scripts from the web in some way either. Also, the reason why PAC3 doesn't create a ton of Awesomium instances is because CapsAdmin was smart about it and used a limited pool of them.[/QUOTE] oh my bad, I didn't realize that you could grab textures from the web in gmod, that sounds extremely useful to be honest. Thanks.