| Subject: Dreamscene sucking all my CPU. Plz help. |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.aero |
| Date: 11/15/2007 8:00:08 PM |
| From: Donger723 [Email Address Protection] |
Hey all, I recently made the jump to Ultimate x64 and love it. However, I recently installed the Windows Dreamscene and then followed it up with Stardock Deskscapes. This is when i realized something fishy with my video card/driver/config/??. Everything is stock, no OC or anything. Brand new formatted HD and OS so theres nothing that seems abnormal - I infact have pretty much no progs installed yet. My specs as following: ULTIMATE X64[/B] *3GB RAM* *AMD 64 X2 +3500* *SAPPHIRE RADDEON X850 PRO* [B]PERFORMANCE SCORE -- GRAPHICS: 5.9 GAMING GRAPHICS: 4.9 PROCESSOR: 4.1 MEMORY: 4.6 HD: 5.6 So given that, I figured i should be able to run most things fairly smoothly. Heres the problem, with a still background pic my cpu idles at 0%, with a Windows DreamScene video it idles at 40%, and with Stardock Video it idles pretty much at 90-100%! Ram stays at 30% for all. Now i understand those videos can be somewhat of a step up to a still picture, but buddies of mine with similar computers tell me they are idling around 15%. 90% seems to be a red flag that somethign isn't right. I've installed ATI's newest Catalyst drivers (7.10 I believe), ran through all the Windows updates, and made a half attempt to get codecs. Granted a wallpaper is fairly superficial, but I figure if theres something wrong in the video department, it's going to show its face when I attempt at games or photoshop rendering. Does anyone have any ideas? Please help -- Donger723 |
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