Optimize for my *computer*?

As the title says, what can I do if I need the basic roll20 environment to run lighter on my machine instead of having issues with connection or graphics? I can barely have any other tabs open at the same time, which makes it hard to keep reference pages available or to use discord.

For graphics, I'd disable 3D dice.

*not* graphical issues

What browser are you using? Firefox tends to use way more RAM than Chrome but Chrome is less stable and has a tendency to crash so it's a trade off. Stability for more RAM or less stability for less RAM.

Kastion said: What browser are you using? Firefox tends to use way more RAM than Chrome but Chrome is less stable and has a tendency to crash so it's a trade off. Stability for more RAM or less stability for less RAM. The opposite actually seems to be the case?

There was some talk recently of Chrome or Firefox (I think the latter), accumulating RAM usage during a long run. The same campaign opened after a refresh took about half the RAM of one that had been open for hours or days.

General recommendations. If you are running a game then don't use tiles to make maps in roll20 but build it in a 3rd party program (gimp, photoshop, etc...) and upload it. If you use discord or another voice program, try to shift it's use to another device such as a phone or tablet. If you are running a game, limit how many journals (sheets) you have in your game. This is especially true to some of the D&D sheets (the more complex ones). If you are playing in a game that has dynamic lighting or advance fog of war, try not to have extra tabs or programs running as dynamic lighting and advance fog of war are somewhat resource hogs. Again try to offload any voice program (if you are not using the built in roll20 A/V) to a seperate device. That is all I can think of off the top of my head without knowing the specs of your computer but those suggestions are geared for the older or low end computers.

Most of these steps are only particularly helpful on the lower end computer but could help clear the cobwebs in any intensive I/O situation (lotta data reading and writing to your computer through browser). Quit Browser (let it close entirely). Then shut down computer. Start up computer (without auto-loading previous windows/tabs). Close any background process things that automatically loaded on startup (like your music player, cloud storage, Steam, etc). Start up a clean browser (without loading and then closing or not closing a bunch of other tabs). Only open Roll20. Open as few other reference tabs on this machine as possible during the session. (Look up other websites / books, on your phone/tablet instead). When something changes in Roll20, let it load completely before you click-around and click-and-drag and type and issue more commands. Let pages load (first blurry, then sharp). Offload Discord to a secondary device (do voice using your smartphone, tablet, second laptop, epc, instead of computer running Roll20 also). Ask GM to delete or store (Character Vault) any extraneous / unnecessary Character Journals that could be adding a lot of attributes (such as sheets for past NPC's, dead Characters of olde, or tons of Monsters imported into the game when most of them won't be needed for the upcoming sessions). Don't zoom in & out, willy nilly. If you choose a new zoom level, let it load fully before panning or zooming again. Also, Read Wiki docs, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Optimizing_Roll20_Performa" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Optimizing_Roll20_Performa</a>...