Extreme slow GUI in XP

[marcoll]

I really hope someone can help, I have been running media portal from day one, but never a day without problems.
I now decided to downgrade from Vista to XP, but the situation is worse well regarding the GUI at least it is way too slow 10 fps.

I have XP SP3
Intel 945 Chipset with all the latest driver direct from the Intel website
2GB RAM
T2300 @ 1,66GHz

When I ran Mediaportal Windows the performance is 50 fps, but fullscreen I get 10, but it feels even worse, everything moves jerky and hardly response to my remote. As soon as I managed to start a DVD the performance is superb, but when I press the INFO button and Mediaportal GUI is popping in, the performance drops, and the DVD stops playing properly aswell.

I have been trying everything (for instance installing some egine updates and downgrade) I can think of for two days non-stop but now I give up.... I really hope someone can give me hand.

Thanks in advance

[Spragleknas]

Make sure that your gfx has been addressed 128 MB memory, ref.:

Originally Posted by MP Wiki

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Hardware for MediaPortal and/or TV-Server:
* DirectX 9 compatible video card with at least 128 MB of video memory such as...)

[marcoll]

Thx Spragleknas, but I already set it to use 128MB (just like it was in Vista without this problem).

Forgot to mention in my first post, I also tried the 'trouble shoot' options in the Windows drivers settings but didn't make a difference.

[Spragleknas]

OK. First: I'm gonna move your thread to a more suited place
Could you please read the sticky and do a proper support report (include logs and full system specs)?




EDIT:
:::MOVED:::
Sticky is here, btw -> http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/ge...rt-thread.html

[marcoll]

Spragleknas, I just created the report like you suggested, thx! Perhaps you can remove this subject here?

[malachii]

Originally Posted by marcoll

I really hope someone can help, I have been running media portal from day one, but never a day without problems.
I now decided to downgrade from Vista to XP, but the situation is worse well regarding the GUI at least it is way too slow 10 fps.

Posting to state I have the same issue with RC2.

Doing a straight install over top of the SVN, my gui performance is around 3 fps. Quite miserable. I have since bitten the bullet and removed everything through a uninstall, and installed cleanly.

I have changed back and forth between the default skin and the one I was used to using before RC2 with no effect. I did have to go in and correctly map my ati remote and for what appears to be no reason, the problem "went away". As of right now, about 30 + fps in gui. This bugs me because something in RC2 brought it on, and I am not sure what made it go away.

Of note: Before the RC2 install, MP performance was starting to go downhill bigtime. For instance, starting a movie would take around 10-15 seconds for anything to happen, and then once it did, audio would start playing 5 full seconds before anything was drawn on screen. A clean install seemed to have rectified that for the time being, although "share" listing is still awfully slow.


TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: RC2
MediaPortal Skin: Default
Windows Version: Xp SP3
CPU Type: AMD Phenom 9600 Quad Core
HDD: Seagte 400GB
Memory: G.Skill PC2-6400 4 GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Video Card: ATI 3200 HD
Video Card Driver: As of May 20
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio
Sound Card AC3: SPDIF out
Sound Card Driver: As of May 20th
1. TV Card: NA
1. TV Card Type: NA
1. TV Card Driver: NA
2. TV Card: NA
2. TV Card Type: NA
2. TV Card Driver: NA
3. TV Card: NA
3. TV Card Type: NA
3. TV Card Driver: NA
4. TV Card: NA
4. TV Card Type: NA
4. TV Card Driver: NA
MPEG2 Video Codec: FFDShow
MPEG2 Audio Codec: FFDShow
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC
Satelite/CableTV Provider: NA
HTPC Case: Generic
Cooling: 1 cpu, 2 system fans
Power Supply: Generic
Remote: ATI (X10)
TV: Magnavox 50 DLP
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI