mintchip Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 This is only really noticeabler if I'm watching a DVD or Blu Ray through Power DVD. Although it does happen other times of course, just not as noticeable. If FM is running alonside it, the movie starts jittering for like 3 minutes. Opening up task manager shows FM using 1GB of RAM and 95% CPU. Appreciate that the RAM will stay up there, but the CPU doesn't drop for aaaaaages after the processing has stopped. ie continue has been pressed and the results have gone through. I'm back to my news screen and not touching anything. CPU stays up in the 90%'s for a few more minutes. Is this normal? What else could be happenign at this point? I've chacked settings to make sure that data collection is disabled and hyperlinks not clickable etc. (Not sure if that makes a difference but did it anyway) Even as I type, FM has ben sat there for 10 minutes doing nothing, yet the CPU is floating in the 20s. SPEC I7 950 12GB RAM Radeon HD 6850 Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scab Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 It's normal, FM is likely processing other teams' fixtures in the background. HD video playback and FM are both very CPU intensive tasks, so simple time sharing between the two will result in the jittery playback you mention as the video player has to wait too long for CPU time to decode the video frames. You could try playing with the CPU priority of FM and your player to make Windows bias the video player, or, seeing how you have a multi-core system, assign them to a different set of CPU cores. Processing will be slower but your video should play more smoothly (assuming the cores you assigned to it are fast enough). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevio11 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Use gamebooster mate,it worked for meand a lot of people on these forums Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly_flyer10 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Totally normal, its just doing the processing, watching a BR is also very processor intensive too, you shouldnt really do both at the same time without expecting problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintchip Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Decent answers guys, thanks. I will definately try gamebooster, as mentioned above. As I say, it's nothing major, just didn't know if there was an option I'd missed somewhere that meant things were still happening in the background. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 23 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Use gamebooster mate,it worked for meand a lot of people on these forums Just wanted to say thanks for suggesting that. Hadn't heard of it before but tried it now and it makes a difference. Oh and I know it's beside the point but not having a DVD and FM needlessly open at the same time would solve it too ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotshotUK Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 12GB RAM!!!!!???? WHOA! Why on earth do you need 12GB RAM!!!??? That is Bonker!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAmGory Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 If you have the money, why not? I'd guess he's running a minimum 10+ leagues for so much background processing. I run 6 active leagues (England Spain France Italy Germany and Scotland) on a PC with 6gig ram and an intel i5 and after about 10 minutes CPU drops under 10 - but it will hit performance of any other application when processing as you would expect. Solution? Laptop. Play FM and watch TV! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 An i7 should have no trouble processing FM fixtures and watching a HD movie at the same time. I do it all the time (I got an i7 870). I always browse the web, watch movies or do other stuff while FM calculates the matches. Even if FM is using all the cores fully windows will just free up a bit of processing power to keep the video and browsing smooth (unless you've messed with FMs priority of course). The only way my pc is running at 100% is when I have BOINC running. If I want to I can keep it running while playing FM (BOINC will snooze when FM needs to process fixtures). Now that I think about it, perhaps you should try another media player. Like VLC player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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