I am having a problem with winamp. I have a 900mhz AMD athlon, winamp 2.73 (latest version), wound blaster live card. Whenever i am playing winamp my cpu usage jumps to 100%, when i am not using winamp my usage is between 2 and 30%. Why is this. the process priority for iwnamp is normal. Please help thanks.

Preferences (Ctrl-P) > Plug-ins > DSP/Effect > "(none)" > Close

nope
 

I never had a dsp plugin installed..... it is none

did you check if you accidentaly gave mp3s full priority
chck preferences>options

Nope
 

That doesnt work its on normal.... Everything elaing with priority is on normail...I tried everything with low and it is still at 100%...Please help, any other suggestons?

Check your plugins dir, If its has somethind called mp3_nomad.dll or anything like that delete it.

how did you check the cpu usage??? Does windows have something to do that with?

I have 2 systems:
AMD K6-II 450MHz w/64MB SDRAM running Win98
and
AMD K6-II 400MHz w/128MB SDRAM running Win2k Pro (at one time)

The Win98 machine using Winamp and DFX takes ~40% of my processor.
The Win2k machine using Winamp and DFX takes ~30% of my processor.

Other than DFX, I'm not running any other programs along with it.

Now how does that pan out? Is it because Winamp is MMX enhanced or somthing? I know my friend with a P3-500 using winamp, in Win2k, only takes 1-2% of his processor.

Relax, don't worry about such trivial things, have some cake.

Windows NT/2k: Right click on blank task bar space > task manager > process tab

Windows 9X/ME (4.X): Get wintop: http://newlife-win98.server101.com/wintop_info.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d...oy/Default.asp