Hoping for troubleshooting tips (1 Viewer)

[sbring]

With the hardware below, which according to several witnesses should be quite sufficient to run MP, I find it using 90-199% CPU while idling and reacting extremely slowly. I have tried reinstalling video drivers and disabling plugins. I do not try to run it from secondary display. I have the latest DirectX installed.

What more should I look for?

Sven

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 (2006-07-03)
MediaPortal Skin: mce
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: MPEG/AC3/DTS/LPCM Audio Decoder
Video Codec: Mpeg2Dec Filter
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP1600+
Memory: 511 MB
Motherboard: A7V266-E (ASUSTeK Computer INC.)
TV Card Model: -
TV Card Type: -
TV Card Driver: -
Video Card Model: Radeon 9250 (128 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: Overlay
Audio Card Model: Creative SB Live! Series (WDM)
Audio Card Driver: -
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[Paranoid Delusion]

High CPU can be down to a lot of things (have had it myself)

Always advise a totally clean instal of XP with SP2, that means reformatting the Hard drive which does not happen normally, this guarantees any old files/settings are remove which could cause corruption.
Install any codecs you need, ie vobsub Divx (try to keep to a minimum).
Then install 0.2 with stable update.

If you still have a problem, you can say some part of your Hardware is not doing its job (nothing alarmingly jumps out).

Good luck, bit of a pain reinstalling everything but then you can say that you have tried everything, more than not something outside MP screwing things up.

 

[Marcusb]

I don't know much about the radeons, but is that card hardware DirectX rendering? I think that would be where the issue is.

MP renders like a 3d game so it doesn't need much CPU power, but needs good gfx power.