CPU overload

[Guest]

System 2GHz P4 1GB RAM ATA133 HDD Geforce fx6200 256MB
I was playing an MP3 (320Kbs) in media player, whilst viewing some photos
(5MB JPEG) and every time I moved to the next photo the MP3 stuttered quite
badly. Sometimes the photos would initially blur for a couple of seconds
before they had been fully processed. Playing uncompressed AVI files in media
player also gives a very jerky picture. If I win at Mahjong and the fireworks
are displayed they too jerk around a lot.
I will persevere with RC1 as I think it has some excellent features, but the
final release needs to be a lot tighter on performance I think. I run visual
studio and office 2003 and they seem to be ok performance wise so the
problems are hopefully just codec related.

 

[Marco Dalli]

Same thing here for Windows Media Player.
The problem doesn't exist if I use another player, so it's not codec
related, but WMP-related. Maybe WMP needs a small update...

Marco

 

[David R. Longnecker]

Are you running the latest release of the Forceware for your NVidia card?
I found, on my Quadra at least, that video performance was pretty painful
and much like you are describing; however, tossing in an ATI card, I didn't
have any problems whatsoever. I haven't tried Vista on the Quadra box again,
so I'm not sure if performance has increased in recent Forceware builds,
but perhaps something to check.

-dl

 

[Guest]

I just have the default VISTA Nvidia drivers. However, I have noticed over
the last couple of nights that my disk has started thrashing for at least 30m
after boot up and VISTA is creating multiple system restores. I can't seem to
stop this and it is definitely affecting performance. Even playing a normal
CD (i.e. no MP3 codec involved) has exactly the same effects. I will install
the latest forceware and see what happens - thanks.

 

[Guest]

Further - I have just installed latest Forceware drivers from Nvidia and if
anything the situation is worse. I've also turned off System Restore point
generation. At least my disk has stopped thrashing. My 25fps AVI file (from a
video camera) uses 85% CPU. My Fuji s9500 camera produces a 30fps AVI file
and this uses 100% (and obviously needs more).