I though the Winamp 3 skins just consumed RAM
 

But its not what i've saw
I was playing a Quake III online, and i saw, how slow it was
i thought ar first that is was wa3
but, i just changed to the defauld skin, and the game ran smoothly
so, i decided to see, how much of the processor usw % each winamp/skin uses
FYI
the numbers are the processor usage % of a PIII 1G

default skin
Wa2 - 5
wa2 - without spectrum analizer 4
all the skins in wa2, takes about the same amount of processor, than the defalut skin

wa3 (default skin) - 11
wa3 (default skin) without spectrum analizer - 9

wa3 Koalla 2 skin - about 22

wa3 zygote 1 skin - this is the best
about 50

yeah, the skins on winamp 3 can consume a lot of your processor.
40 % more than the default skin
i didnt knew about this.
now i just use the default skin (i can play better)
does someone know whitch things can we disable to reduce the processor use?

PS: i made the test without rebooting, closign all the possible programs, without winamps running, it marks 1 %

PS2: I'm not using Win2K/XP, so, desktopalpha=disbled