Author Topic: why is film viewer such a resource hog? (Read 344 times)

Wingnutt · « **on:** February 25, 2008, 11:58:37 PM »

just sitting there, no clip loaded.. not doing anything its using 84mb of ram and 97% of the CPU.. if I minimize it and try to for example open firefox.. everything moves at a crawl..

bear in mind this is with the program at IDLE no clip loaded, nothing.. just clicked and opened it, did nothing more..

I let it sit for maybe a few min and the CPU usage goes to 0 but the ram use stays high..

when I actually open a film the memory usage skyrockets to well over 200mb.. for say a 10 minute film.. a longer film takes up more..

I dont understand this at all..

Sys Specs:

Athlon 64@ 3.0GHz
2GB DDR 533 ram in dual channel
512gb hard drive (100gb used)
Geforce 8800GT OC

Xp SP2.

wooly15 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2008, 08:13:06 AM »

I agree, my system struggles with the film viewer as well when it shouldn't. I don't even attempt to use it with my much slower laptop. It brings it to it's knees.

AMD FX-62 dual-core 2.8ghz
8800GTX
2GB DDR

Denholm · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2008, 09:42:03 AM »

Runs fine on my 1.3 MHZ Processor with 1GB of DDR ram.

I'm special.

reeb · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2008, 02:58:07 PM »

runs great for me

asus sk8v mobo
amd fx51 2.2ghz 64bit proc
evga 7600gt superclocked 512meg vid
1 gig of pc3200 corsair dual channel ram

Fulmar · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2008, 03:06:53 PM »

Only problem I have is the program crashes. Then it may be locked up at using 100% CPU, but otherwise no resource problems on my sytstem.

E6400, 4gb ram, 8800GTS 640mb