WinDVD 2010 Pro CPU Usage Poll

[Kraster]

I contacted Corel Tech Support over what I believe to be high CPU usage when running WinDVD2010 Pro. When I ran WinDVD9 under Vista32 on the same hardware, CPU usage was significantly less then what I see now, more in the realm of 30-50%. Tech Support responded that I should call in and pay for an answer, so I thought I'd poll the community instead.

Please list the following specs and what you see in your resource monitor [min - max]% when playing a Bluray disc.

WinDVD2010 Pro v10.0.5.536.113375
Windows 7 32bit
ATI Radeon HD3450, drivers v10.8
Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
2GB RAM
CPU Usage 70-85%

Thanks!

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FYI, Tech Support did write back and tell me that I should install the latest ATI drivers (duh) as well as the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and the Direct X Resdistributable package (June 2010). Links are below. I did this and it didn't really change much, but it also made me wonder why they'd suggest installing these packages when their own software documentation or installation procedure doesn't mention either. Does anyone have any experience with these?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... ceb6d8fa8d

[nepenthe]

Kraster -

WinDVD Pro 2010 does usurp considerable memory resources (123MB on my machine) but only 1-2% of CPU resources:

I-7 860 CPU (running at default 2.8GHz)
OCZ DDR3 1333MHz 4x2GB (8GB total physical memory)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UDP3 (rev 1.0) mainboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 GPU
WD 'Velociraptor' 300GB HDD
Windows XP Pro 64-bit OS

nepenthe

[Kraster]

37 views and 1 response? That's not much of a poll! C'mon people, post some numbers!

[lesterf1020]

Well WINDVD 2010 pro uses 221MB of ram on my system and 5% CPU without all2hd and 20% using ALL2HD

Asus Commando motherboard
intel Q9550 Processor
6GB OCZ DDR2 ram
AMD HD 5870 512MB Video card

[Rob717]

I contacted Corel Tech Support over what I believe to be high CPU usage when running WinDVD2010 Pro. When I ran WinDVD9 under Vista32 on the same hardware, CPU usage was significantly less then what I see now, more in the realm of 30-50%. Tech Support responded that I should call in and pay for an answer, so I thought I'd poll the community instead.

Please list the following specs and what you see in your resource monitor [min - max]% when playing a Bluray disc.

WinDVD2010 Pro v10.0.5.536.113375
Windows 7 32bit
ATI Radeon HD3450, drivers v10.8
Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
2GB RAM
CPU Usage 70-85%

Thanks!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++

FYI, Tech Support did write back and tell me that I should install the latest ATI drivers (duh) as well as the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and the Direct X Resdistributable package (June 2010). Links are below. I did this and it didn't really change much, but it also made me wonder why they'd suggest installing these packages when their own software documentation or installation procedure doesn't mention either. Does anyone have any experience with these?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... ceb6d8fa8d

The CPU usage will depend, do you mean WinDVD just open not playing a movie, Playing a BD or DVD Movie, what type of BD movie and is it in the menu when the CPU usage reaches its highest, do you have Windows Aero enabled? We need more information to be able to test and compare.

Here are my System Specs:

System Type: Desktop
O/S: Windows 7 32-bit (Aero enabled)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66 GHz
Memory: 4096 MB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850 - 07/06/2010 - 8.753.0.0
Processes: 50 (WinDVD Pro 2010 Running)
WinDVD: 10.0.5.544
- Use Hardware Decode Acceleration: Enabled - ATI Radeon
- Allow WinDVD to Check if Blu-ray is supported in the Windows Aero environment (Windows 7 Only) - enabled

WinDVD CPU Usage:
Movie: James Bond: Casino Royal
Previews: low: 01% High 09%
Menu: Low: 05% High 12%
Movie Playback: Low: 02% High: 11%

WinDVD Memory: Maxed out at 250 MB