gpvr.exe - doing something every 10 seconds?

[JohnInSJ]

Situation: Clean reboot of system and gbpvr, gbpvr sitting in welcome/home/main screen (whatever that's called )
Behavior: Every 10 seconds, gbpvr.exe does something, using 25% of the CPU, for just a second or so...

Question: what's it doing? Can I make it stop doing it somehow?

Plugins: Weather, XRecord
Skin: Blue
Version: latest (95.16)

[groover km]

IIRC, updating the 'Next Recording' panel.

[JohnInSJ]

IIRC, updating the 'Next Recording' panel.

Can I disable that panel? I really don't need it (and with a 300 gig drive, kid, and wife, there are always many, many "next recordings" )

Edit: Hmmm... found it in the main menu/skin.xml file, commented out the NextRecording panel line, restarted recording service and gbpvr.exe, but the regular process blip remains - so it is still doing something every 10 seconds even if the panel itself is not loaded in the skin.

[groover km]

Yes - you can disable the panel through the main menu skin.xml file in the panel settings...

I am not a 'skinner', so I can't remember how to do it without looking at it (I'm not at home at the moment), but I'm pretty sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be along to answer...

[JohnInSJ]

Ahhh - it is the screen saver! When it kicks in, every 10 seconds or so it fades the logo in and out someplace else, and that burns cpu.

Edit: so is there a lighter-weight screensaver? It's the logo fade in/out that seems to use CPU.

[JohnInSJ]

Well that was fun...

Ok, so the NextRecording thing burns 5-8% CPU every 5 or so seconds, *and* the screen saver burns 20% cpu every 5 or so seconds, and they both happen at the same time (which is odd for sure) so you end up with this 25% cpu spike (YMMV based on your system speed, but for me this is a P4/1.6ghz cpu)

Disable the screen saver in the config app
Disable the NextRecording in the main menu/skin.xml file (just comment the line out)

restart recording service, restart gbpvr.exe...

Perfect!