REAL Core 2 Duo support in VS10 Plus, when?

[GuyL]

If you are not getting 100% utilization, you could have an I/O bottleneck -- are you reading and writing to/from the same drive?

I am for now but not for long. I had a drive die on me recently that I had to replace and I stole my dedicated video drive to replace it.

[fredb]

I am a happy camper, Ulead fixed the encoding bug. On my Duo Core 2 6400 I now get 90-100% cpu usage. I'll do some comparisons between before and after SP1 to see what kind of improvement this translates into.
I do have 3 physical disks in my system, one boot, one capture and one video editing although I suspect some bottleneck due to the Asrock DualVista motherboard design (IDE and SATA controllers use an ISA-PCI bridge). I plan on getting a new MB soon that fully releases the potential of the CPU. However this is already excellent.

Fred

[CycleWriter]

For AMD X2 series CPU, I will see what I can do.

Hope this helps.

That would be nice considering my whole purpose in buying a new X2-equipped computer was to speed up my video editing tasks.

[fredb]

Just finished some benchmarking under both XP SP2 and Vista. I encoded a 5 min NTSC DV avi to NTSC DVD Dolby 5.1 at 70% quality. Results:

1. XP SP2, VS10: 5 min
2. Vista RC1, VS10+SP1: 5min 20 sec
3. XP SP2, VS10+SP1: 3 min

This is on a E6400 Duo Core 2 overclocked to 300 FSB (2.4 ghz).
Vista result is quite disappointing, however it's also running PC-Cillin antivirus which seems to slow things down quite a bit. My XP configuration uses McAfee on the other hand.
I am not about to switch to Vista for video(just doing some testing), so the results under XP with VS10 SP1 are quite good and the improvement over base VS10 well worth the SP1.

Good job Ulead!

Fred

[CycleWriter]

I am not about to switch to Vista for video(just doing some testing), so the results under XP with VS10 SP1 are quite good and the improvement over base VS10 well worth the SP1.

I am not considering it either. Each new iteration of Windows suffers just a little bit more of the Microsoft "kitchen sink" mentality. More and more add-ons to the OS, many of which run in the background automatically, just make Windows less and less capable of running processor-intensive applications like video editing efficiently. I wish the boys in Redmond would concentrate more on making the OS work properly (with fewer bugs and security issues) and leave the 3rd party developers to do what they do better. Too many of these ancillary programs that MS has added to the core Windows OS (like Windows Movie Maker, for one) lack functionality to be taken seriously or be of any real benefit. Vista will likely add even more of these types of unwanted features to the OS that do little beyond slowing the computer down and inhibiting the work of more full-featured software. All the OS personalization/appearance tricks added in XP just slow the system down and figuring out which ones to turn off or eliminate and how is a chore. Vista will likely not reduce these problems.