some skins take alot of cpu cycles (2 Viewers)

erikma

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i have noticed that the best skins (like project mayhem 3) are real cpu hogs compared to blue two or the simple skin.
they're therefore not that good useable for me (tv signal gets interrupted from time to time or music skips parts)
have others noticed this too?
thx,
erik
 

ricbernards

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what tv-card do you have?

it could be that your tv-card doesnt have a hardware-mpeg-encoder on it... so your cpu does all this work... it doesnt like that and it will overkill if its load gets raised a little bit.

maybe this answers your question?
 

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    Hi,

    yeah. I noticed this too. On my Athlon XP 1700+ My TV is nearly unusable with PMIII. I am using a hardware encoder card, so this is really not the reason. Skins like BlueTwo work without problems.

    Flip.
     

    dfbb

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    It's probably because your graphics card does not support DirectX-9 in hardware. I used to have a ATI 7500 which ran MP fine with MCE, but other skins would MP crawl. I saw FlipGer also has a 8500 (no DirectX-9 hardware support) so that would explain his problem too.
     

    Harley

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    Hi,

    i have test it today on a smaller system then my.

    Tested on a Sempron 2800 with VGA Card Geforce FX 5200 and 512 MB Ram.

    Works fine here with PM3.

    Greetings Harley
     

    erikma

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    hi thanks for answering. i have an onboard graphic card intel 82945g express chipset family. its a rather new system ,and i suspect that hardware encoding is possible with this graphic card/system
    thx,
    erik
     

    Zeljko

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    Hi,

    i have test it today on a smaller system then my.

    Tested on a Sempron 2800 with VGA Card Geforce FX 5200 and 512 MB Ram.

    Works fine here with PM3.

    Greetings Harley

    Harley and other developers, be honest and confess that MP is not light application. We must have DX9 card, TV card with hardware coding, .NET ...
    Many people told me (when I recommend MP) that it's not responsive like other application and it's true. I think that some of developers should work on code optimization, and leave for a while implementation of new features. It's not logical that we need very fast and expensive configuration just to watch TV, listen music, see pictures...
     

    FlipGer

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    Hi,

    I think that some of developers should work on code optimization, and leave for a while implementation of new features. It's not logical that we need very fast and expensive configuration just to watch TV, listen music, see pictures...

    That's what they are always doing (besides implementing new features). Current SVN seems to be already good times faster then 0.2.1.0. :)

    Flip.

    And yes, I am running a 8500 which supports "only" DX8.1 fully. But my new HTPC is on the go. :D
     

    CHli

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    I think you can build a MP system for 500€ so don't say it's heavy, it's just a modern application build for the current technologies and future proof.
     

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