WMP11

[Travis King]

Anyone else have slow visualizations in WMP11? Blazing colors for example
is very slow and even bars and waves visualizations are slower. Also when I
use a visualization that uses my video card such as barr, WMP10 viz, etc.
and change to a visualization that doesn't such as bars and waves, the
visualization stops and does not change until I restart WMP11.

 

[Travis King]

Also, CPU usage for even the bars & waves visualization goes up to the upper
30's and lower 40's %. In XP with even WMP11, CPU usage with that same viz
was between 4% and 7%. Would this by chance have something to do with my
soundcard drivers not being 100% proper? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem like yours but not quite as bad. There's some
slowing of visualization on WMP 11 specially when Vista is on Aero Glass
mode. It could be the video card is not powerful enough or maybe its driver
is not optimized for Vista--yet. Also, the amount of memory, cpu power,
chipset could afffect Vista's performance as well. Try doing a performance
analysis of your system. Vista has that feature. If I remember its in the
Control Panel. It evaluates your system and tells you what programs, apps,
drivers are slowing the system down. Also try setting Vista for Performance
and see if the symptoms disappear.

 

[Travis King]

I have an Ati Radeon X1600 PRO with 256MB of GDDR2 RAM. (AGP 8x) The GPU
is getting a 5.9 and the video RAM is getting a 4.3. I am using the driver
that you get from Ati's website even though I got glass immediately upon
installing Vista. (The reason was because I needed the ATI Catalyst Control
Center to adjust the brightness because my monitor had problems. I just got
a different monitor tonight. This monitor's older, but it's a 21". It's
beige, which doesn't go so well with my computer, but it at least works the
way it should. I'll have to see if I can paint it black.) I have 1.5GB of
RAM with 1.1GB free even running Vista. I have an AMD Sempron 2800+. I can
run the same visualizations in XP full-screen with no lagging at all (even
with WMP11 in XP). My computer's overall rating is a 3.
Sempron 2800+ = 3.1
1.5GB of RAM = 3.0
Hard Disk WD 120GB IDE 7200RPM 8MB cache HD (60GB partition) = 3.7
Ati Radeon X1600 Series = 5.9
384 Graphics Memory = 4.3

I was getting performance warnings for my sound drivers, but then later also
got one for my video card drivers. They related to start-up performance and
sleep performance.

 

[Travis King]

Maybe it is the video drivers because Aero Glass is always a little slow
(FPS isn't high enough) when WMP11 is running. Whenever I close WMP11, the
performance of Aero Glass goes back up and windows will drag smoothly again
and window animations are smooth again. It doesn't make a difference if
there's a visualization going in WMP11 or not.

 

[Travis King]

I'm narrowing it down more... DWM is eating 30% of my CPU when running
WMP11. Now the question is, why?