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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?
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?