The Smoke visualization, when displayed on the second monitor, pushes the systems CPU utilization to 100% and the mouse becomes slow to respond.
While running smoke on the primary monitor the CPU runs at 90% with reasonable mouse response. By comparison, MilkDrop only consumes 4% CPU when displayed on the second monitor.
System: P4 1.6 GHz, 1/2 gig of memory, Radeon 8500DV (dual monitors), XP Home op sys with all of the latest patches.
dxdiag.exe reported no problems. Hydravision is unloaded. Net Meeting is not used.
I have turned particles off, reduced the FPS to 15, tried 16 and 32 bit color (800x600), and set the pressure field calcs to super low.
Any suggestions?