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Offline Wingnutt

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why is film viewer such a resource hog?
« 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..  



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Offline wooly15

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why is film viewer such a resource hog?
« 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.

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Offline Denholm

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why is film viewer such a resource hog?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 09:42:03 AM »
Runs fine on my 1.3 MHZ Processor with 1GB of DDR ram.:D

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Offline reeb

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why is film viewer such a resource hog?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 02:58:07 PM »
runs great for me

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Offline Fulmar

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why is film viewer such a resource hog?
« 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.

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