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Windows Media Player....Resource Hog?

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1/22/06 at 12:21am
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So, I have a pretty powerfull desktop; an Athlon X2 4800, dual 7800GTX graphics cards, 2 gigs of memory, dual 10k raptors in RAID 0, etc...

When using Windows Media Player 10, I look on task manager, and it seems to be using between 20-30 percent CPU utilization. Is this normal, and if so, why in the hell is WMP such a hog? I mean other than MS sucks, which is the default answer.

Dave
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post #2 of 5
1/22/06 at 1:48am
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Originally Posted by Caelric
So, I have a pretty powerfull desktop; an Athlon X2 4800, dual 7800GTX graphics cards, 2 gigs of memory, dual 10k raptors in RAID 0, etc...

When using Windows Media Player 10, I look on task manager, and it seems to be using between 20-30 percent CPU utilization. Is this normal, and if so, why in the hell is WMP such a hog? I mean other than MS sucks, which is the default answer.

Dave
Turn off visualizations. Also, depending on if your watching a video or not postprocessing can be a real hog on CPU time.
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post #3 of 5
1/22/06 at 2:47am
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Huge difference! Thanks for the help, I should have thought of that.

Dave
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post #4 of 5
1/22/06 at 11:11pm
It also helps switching to the Windows classic view and also turn off the menu visual effects.

It will speed up things a little bit.
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post #5 of 5
1/23/06 at 2:57am
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Thanks, as well, to you
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