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<blockquote data-quote="WildW" data-source="post: 332157" data-attributes="member: 84853">I'm just starting to come across this same problem. In the past I've run MediaPortal without issues on a low-spec machine (1GHz Pentium 3, 512MB ram, Geforce4MX graphics), so I didn't expect any issues with the replacement I just bought.I picked up a Mac-Mini sized PC by AOpen, with Celeron M 1.4GHz and Intel 915GM Graphics (integrated). I'm now having major CPU munching issues in MediaPortal's menus. You'd think the difficult bit would be playing back video - which it manages at &lt; 20% CPU usage. But in the menus it's stuck at 99%, and is sluggish.I read with interest that it's likely to be graphics chip related. I've updated drivers, set memory options for the on-board graphics to maximum in the bios, but no change. I was intrigued by I looked briefly through the skins that are available in search of a boring resource-light one, but to no avail. Does such a thing exist? I have animations unticked in the general options but it hasn't helped. It's starting to look like this machine is just incapable of running MediaPortal without cooking itself at 100% CPU usage . . .which is plain stupid. I realise the CPU is having to step in to do the DirectX stuff that the graphics chip doesn't support, but it's only drawing a menu. . . I just can't figure out why the interface has to be redrawn constantly when once-per-button-press would do fine.&nbsp;&lt;/frustration&gt; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WildW, post: 332157, member: 84853"] I'm just starting to come across this same problem. In the past I've run MediaPortal without issues on a low-spec machine (1GHz Pentium 3, 512MB ram, Geforce4MX graphics), so I didn't expect any issues with the replacement I just bought. I picked up a Mac-Mini sized PC by AOpen, with Celeron M 1.4GHz and Intel 915GM Graphics (integrated). I'm now having major CPU munching issues in MediaPortal's menus. You'd think the difficult bit would be playing back video - which it manages at < 20% CPU usage. But in the menus it's stuck at 99%, and is sluggish. I read with interest that it's likely to be graphics chip related. I've updated drivers, set memory options for the on-board graphics to maximum in the bios, but no change. I was intrigued by I looked briefly through the skins that are available in search of a boring resource-light one, but to no avail. Does such a thing exist? I have animations unticked in the general options but it hasn't helped. It's starting to look like this machine is just incapable of running MediaPortal without cooking itself at 100% CPU usage . . .which is plain stupid. I realise the CPU is having to step in to do the DirectX stuff that the graphics chip doesn't support, but it's only drawing a menu. . . I just can't figure out why the interface has to be redrawn constantly when once-per-button-press would do fine. </frustration> :( [/QUOTE]

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