2006-10-03, 09:08 AM
I upgraded my laptop to 98.08 yesterday and after a long process of fiddling with skins and plugins etc. I finally got it up and running.
After playing with it for a good few hours I have to say that I really like a lot of the new features and I definately want to take advantage of them but I noticed a major difference in performance in 98.08 that makes it unusable for me.
My laptop is a 1.6ghz Turion 64 with 1mb ram and the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset. In 96.08, I use VMR7 and the Nvidia Purevideo decoder and the CPU usage on average is around 30% when watching LiveTV. In 98.08 the CPU usage is double, and goes up to 90%+ when I use VMR9. In all of the VMR modes it drops frames like crazy.
I managed to get it to work in Overlay mode, but the CPU consumption is still much higher than before. Has anyone else noticed this? I've gone back to 96.08 in the meantime.
Regards
Dave
After playing with it for a good few hours I have to say that I really like a lot of the new features and I definately want to take advantage of them but I noticed a major difference in performance in 98.08 that makes it unusable for me.
My laptop is a 1.6ghz Turion 64 with 1mb ram and the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset. In 96.08, I use VMR7 and the Nvidia Purevideo decoder and the CPU usage on average is around 30% when watching LiveTV. In 98.08 the CPU usage is double, and goes up to 90%+ when I use VMR9. In all of the VMR modes it drops frames like crazy.
I managed to get it to work in Overlay mode, but the CPU consumption is still much higher than before. Has anyone else noticed this? I've gone back to 96.08 in the meantime.
Regards
Dave