Terrible UI performance (1 Viewer)

[jegHegy]

What is your screen resolution ?

How much RAM did you allocate to your intel 950 GMA in the BIOS ?

Res is 1360x768 as mentioned in my original post. No option for the latter in my BIOS, but the Intel control app has its Driver Memory Footprint setting set to "High." Notebook specs say the max is 128MB.

 

[Spragleknas]

The 900/950 only supports DX9 - not DX9c (DirectX API).

Don't know if that is relevant.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_950

 

[jegHegy]

Bump? Any input from developers? Did DX 9.0c introduce a specific hardware function that MP directly relies on and forces my notebook to do it in software or something?

 

[jegHegy]

Bump for added debug log attachment to original post.

 

[wesselcolsen]

I'm having these exact problems with my Optiplex GX260. It has onboard graphics (intel extreme) and allthough the machine and fullscreen TV are perfect, the UI is very very sluggish.

I am affraid that it is because windows defaults my 19inch LCD to 1280x1024. Is there a possibility to make MP switch to say 800x600 (which is more than enough for tv anyway)? I think it might be a problem that it has this high a framerate. I'd rather not have windows itself in 800x600 though.

Will update this thread with my findings, have only been setting up MP yet!

 

[allanp81]

I have exactly the same problem, ui is stuck at 10fps and extremely slow to do anything other than view the home screen. I'm running at 1920x1200 and have never had this problem before. I have a core2duo cpu and x1300 gfx so hardly bad. I'm using the spinsafe revolve skin but have found that switching back to bluetwo still produces the same problem.

 

[wesselcolsen]

My problem was solved by using another videocard (the onboard intel extreme chipset was not fully directx9 compatible). I used a really old and slow ATI 9250 (or even 9150?), but it had the right directx9 compliance and worked like a charm!

Sorry for not updating the thread earlier. Not sure what your problem might be though, did you install directx9 (I guess you did, but just asking).

 

[allanp81]

Yes, it's been fine up until recently, and the only things I've updated are mediaportal itself.

 

[allanp81]

This is really beginning to bug me now, mediaportal is almost unusable. I have another client machine that is identical hardware, identical skin but runs at 1360x768 and don't have this problem at all.

 

[dr.sweety]

Just as a side note: I'm using an AMD 690G chipset (with an integrated Radeon X1250 which only supports DirectX 9.0b). I initially limited the amount of RAM used for the GPU to 32MB RAM which resulted in up to 50% CPU Usage (AMD X2, 2.1Ghz) while playing some music (on the "Now playing" screen). After giving the GPU 128MB of RAM, the problem seems to be gone: around 5% CPU usage again

So, maybe assigning more RAM to your GPU solves your problem too?