Re: WMC issues

Doomed Soul wrote:
> HOWEVER if I open up WMC on my PC it literally brings my pc to a
> crawl. It did it on pc1 and then I switched my WMC extender to the
> faster 64 bit pc2 it acts the same way.
> Is this a common issue, or what?

I have Media Center 2005, on a machine that's 1/3rd as powerful as yours and
don't see what you're seeing.

> Both my pc's are clean and fast as lightning no problems at all with
> any other apps, but as soon as I click on WMC directly. It's so bad I
> avoid doing anything at all directly. I pull it up on my TV via xbox
> to make any changes and it does just fine.
>
> Only time I get lag through extender(xbox) is if its recording, but
> thats to be expected.

I don't see that either. Perhaps your disk is a bit slow, maybe? I've seen
problems here if the disk is badly fragmented... but I thought vista did
autodefrags on a regular basis (maybe that's just win7 tho.)

> It's almost feels as if its the rich graphics and/or added bells and
> whistles of the sliding style links could be it. Thats all I can think
> of anyway.

Given your specs (elided) don't specify any kind of video card, I'm betting
that it's onboard video... and, moreover, that it's done on the main CPU.
That is, I would argue, very likely the cause of the problem. If you can
get even a "cheap" video card to plug in to these, I bet that would resolve
this issue. (i.e. don't buy some outrageous video card. Any "cheap" video
card will remove the burden from the main CPU and likely resolve the issue
completely.)

HTH

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