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<blockquote data-quote="yoclick" data-source="post: 332758" data-attributes="member: 84910">Hi all,First time on this forum! Great to see such fast support!After a long time of trying to understand everything, i finally have MediaPortal up and running on my laptop (specs below). It is currently being viewed on my external 22&quot; 1680x1050 monitor. The hope being that i can view TV on the external and continue to use my laptop on the laptop screen. Well to start with if i even opened Firefox the whole system used to crash. So i downloaded some new drivers for my onboard graphics card (which appears to be running with 128mb memory which i cant seem to change in the BIOS). Now the TV plays beautifully pretty much no matter what! Even pausing for long periods and then playing is fine. But the laptop is fairly slow now. Not too slow but MediaPortal has had a large impact on performance. Currently sqlserver.exe is using 750mb RAM and 787mb Virtual Memory! MediaPortal is using 150mb RAM + 220mb Virtual Memory + 50% CPU!When i was using GB-PVR it was nowhere near this hungry for power and i barely felt the difference when it was on. Is there a problem or from my specs, does this look like the right power needed?Any help would be great.ThanksMediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC3Windows Version: Windows XP Media Center [2002]CPU Type: Core2Duo T5600 1.83GhzHDD: 120GBMemory: 2GBVideo Card: Nvidia Geforce Go 73001. TV Card: DVB-T Stick 1. TV Card Type: USB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="yoclick, post: 332758, member: 84910"] Hi all, First time on this forum! Great to see such fast support! After a long time of trying to understand everything, i finally have MediaPortal up and running on my laptop (specs below). It is currently being viewed on my external 22" 1680x1050 monitor. The hope being that i can view TV on the external and continue to use my laptop on the laptop screen. Well to start with if i even opened Firefox the whole system used to crash. So i downloaded some new drivers for my onboard graphics card (which appears to be running with 128mb memory which i cant seem to change in the BIOS). Now the TV plays beautifully pretty much no matter what! Even pausing for long periods and then playing is fine. But the laptop is fairly slow now. Not too slow but MediaPortal has had a large impact on performance. Currently sqlserver.exe is using 750mb RAM and 787mb Virtual Memory! MediaPortal is using 150mb RAM + 220mb Virtual Memory + 50% CPU! When i was using GB-PVR it was nowhere near this hungry for power and i barely felt the difference when it was on. Is there a problem or from my specs, does this look like the right power needed? Any help would be great. Thanks [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 1.0 RC3 [b]Windows Version[/b]: Windows XP Media Center [2002] [b]CPU Type[/b]: Core2Duo T5600 1.83Ghz [b]HDD[/b]: 120GB [b]Memory[/b]: 2GB [b]Video Card[/b]: Nvidia Geforce Go 7300 [b]1. TV Card[/b]: DVB-T Stick [b]1. TV Card Type[/b]: USB [/QUOTE]

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