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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 934419" data-attributes="member: 123421">DXVA2 NativeCatalyst version 12.6I looked for CPU increase in any process -- none noticed. Nothing else is using much CPU and MP is 39% to 50%, usually upper 40's when watching TV.&nbsp;One thing I forgot to mention is that I reduced the PC's monitor's color depth to 16 bits in non-Aero. This helped months ago, but I'm not sure it's needed now. I didn't do that in the most recent tests. I just put it back to 16 though, since the amount of GPU/CPU it saves is surprising.&nbsp;I have been &quot;fine tuning&quot; this machine for months, so I can get smooth playback, GPU deinterlacing, and acceptable general purpose use. The dshowhelper's addition of buffering is what did the most good. Prior to that I was not able to achieve GPU deinterlacing -- I had to turn deinterlacing off altogether in LAV by checking &quot;treat as progressive.&quot; This resulted in smooth 1080i/60 but added comb artifacts with fast motion.&nbsp;I run Thuderbird always, IE10 several times a day, and some OpenOffice. These don't badly interfere with wife's TV watching, but Chrome is a real pig when it starts up, causing pauses and stutters, so I quit using it. I have comskp set to &quot;play nice&quot; in its .ini file, and a single instance is no problem, 2 instances causes some visible drops in TV, and 3 instances interferes a little with movie watching. I don't run any anti-virus at all. I run MP at High, TVserver at realtime, and MySQL at realtime.&nbsp;I don't have any CPU usage numbers for those heavy scenarios -- running Task Manager causes drops all by itself.&nbsp;EDIT: Deinterlacing set to Adaptive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 934419, member: 123421"] DXVA2 Native Catalyst version 12.6 I looked for CPU increase in any process -- none noticed. Nothing else is using much CPU and MP is 39% to 50%, usually upper 40's when watching TV. One thing I forgot to mention is that I reduced the PC's monitor's color depth to 16 bits in non-Aero. This helped months ago, but I'm not sure it's needed now. I didn't do that in the most recent tests. I just put it back to 16 though, since the amount of GPU/CPU it saves is surprising. I have been "fine tuning" this machine for months, so I can get smooth playback, GPU deinterlacing, and acceptable general purpose use. The dshowhelper's addition of buffering is what did the most good. Prior to that I was not able to achieve GPU deinterlacing -- I had to turn deinterlacing off altogether in LAV by checking "treat as progressive." This resulted in smooth 1080i/60 but added comb artifacts with fast motion. I run Thuderbird always, IE10 several times a day, and some OpenOffice. These don't badly interfere with wife's TV watching, but Chrome is a real pig when it starts up, causing pauses and stutters, so I quit using it. I have comskp set to "play nice" in its .ini file, and a single instance is no problem, 2 instances causes some visible drops in TV, and 3 instances interferes a little with movie watching. I don't run any anti-virus at all. I run MP at High, TVserver at realtime, and MySQL at realtime. I don't have any CPU usage numbers for those heavy scenarios -- running Task Manager causes drops all by itself. EDIT: Deinterlacing set to Adaptive. [/QUOTE]

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