I have similar problems with all the popular apps for video and voice chat: Zoom, Teams, Discord.
There is something very peculiar about it: I can have these apps running with literally no voice or video activity and all costly noise filters turned off, and while the CPU moves between 5-10% (which is still outrageous when nothing is happening), the fan will be running at max, and the battery drains fast.
There is nothing else hogging the CPU, GPU, network etc. in the system, as the process explorer clearly indicates, so there is no reason for the fan and battery to do this.
I keep concluding that there is some hidden process running in the system that causes this, and while I can never prove this, based on some thoughts and discussions by others, and the fact that it happens with video and voice chats, we suspect that advanced analysis on the audio input (voice analysis) is being done whenever the mic is turned on.
There is something very peculiar about it: I can have these apps running with literally no voice or video activity and all costly noise filters turned off, and while the CPU moves between 5-10% (which is still outrageous when nothing is happening), the fan will be running at max, and the battery drains fast.
There is nothing else hogging the CPU, GPU, network etc. in the system, as the process explorer clearly indicates, so there is no reason for the fan and battery to do this.
I keep concluding that there is some hidden process running in the system that causes this, and while I can never prove this, based on some thoughts and discussions by others, and the fact that it happens with video and voice chats, we suspect that advanced analysis on the audio input (voice analysis) is being done whenever the mic is turned on.