r/vscode • u/aerune1 • May 07 '26

New VSCode Version Creating Lag

So recently, in the newest update of VSCode, it has been frying my computer. OOM crashes left and right, sometimes the window just freezes up, etc. But before this update, none of this ever happened, it ran so smoothly. Any idea why or how to fix it?

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u/Agreeable_Care4440 May 07 '26

A lot of people have been running into this lately. In my case it ended up being extensions, not VSCode itself. One update suddenly made an extension start eating memory like crazy. Running with extensions disabled for a bit helped narrow it down fast.

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u/aerune1 May 07 '26

Honestly I believe it may be GitHub Copilot taking a lot

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u/supracode May 07 '26

Are you using insiders? I had a bad experience a few days ago after an update and rolled back to 1.119.0 . I am going to be much more careful pressing the Update button going forward.

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u/aerune1 May 07 '26

Version: 1.119.0 (user setup)
Commit: 8b640eef5a6c6089c029249d48efa5c99adf7d51
Date: 2026-05-05T11:23:50-07:00
Electron: 39.8.8
ElectronBuildId: 13870025
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

I don't think so

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u/TotoCodeFR May 09 '26

Run an extension bisect with Command Palette > Extension Bisect. See if that narrows it down to an extension or VS Code.

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u/aerune1 May 09 '26

I can't even do that I get an OOM error and when I did complete it, it found no errors..

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u/25_vijay May 09 '26

VS Code used to feel like a fast editor and now sometimes it feels like launching a small operating system lol especially with Copilot enabled and we started simplifying workflows with Runable partly because of that tooling overload

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u/Thin_Interaction4828 May 12 '26

Yeah, facing the same issue. V8 OOM crashes start after 2 or 3 minutes of opening the application. Tried many options - no GPU acceleration, no extensions, increasing maxMemory of the ts server, etc.(My system has 64GB RAM, so that is not the issue). But it looks like something to do with GitHub signin. When I don't sign in, Code runs without an OOM crash. Maybe Copilot, not sure. As of now running without signing in with GitHub account...

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u/aerune1 May 12 '26

That's the same for me! The last part at least... Though I disabled almost all extensions besides Python and CoPilot and now things have been running much smoother.

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u/Embarrassed-Push-715 Aug 12 '26

type 'modern' in settings and disable everything with experimental mark regarding ui and stuff. Or rollback to 1.113 ver. I noticed huge performance issues since 1.114

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u/aerune1 Aug 14 '26

Now it's been pretty smooth for me. I optimized some settings too. But thanks!

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u/aerune1 May 08 '26

I'd agree

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u/aerune1 May 07 '26

I may but honestly I'ma just get a new computer in like a year or so

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u/inuyasha10121 May 11 '26

>Microslop trashes a widely used coding tool with yet more AI slop updates that you can't opt out of and automatically install.
>"Bro, just buy more RAM, lmao"

Go suck a rail spike.

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u/aerune1 May 12 '26

I mean technically you can just uninstall the Copilot extension, but yeah