DVDA makes PC sluggish

johnmeyer wrote on 12/7/2003, 4:30 PM

When DVDA is doing anything, my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 absolutely crawls. I can't do anything useful during Prepare operations. By contrast, I can have Vegas rendering away in the background, and I can do lots of other useful things on the PC while this is happening.

Has anyone else noticed this?

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pb wrote on 12/7/2003, 5:21 PM

Yup.

BillyBoy wrote on 12/9/2003, 10:16 AM

Nope. I've gotten over the 'not doing anything else' extra cautious mode for example when burning a DVD or even just building the image filesor rendering. Its been full speed ahead, 5-6 apps all going at once. No problems here.

Neither Vegas or DVD-A slows my system down at all. If it slows yours down, something isn't as it should be.

What's wrong.... now that's a good question. ;-)

johnmeyer wrote on 12/9/2003, 11:55 AM

Billyboy,

Are you using XP Home, XP Pro, NT, or Win2000?

BillyBoy wrote on 12/9/2003, 4:09 PM

Xp Pro

MJhig wrote on 12/9/2003, 7:16 PM

Even my Athlon 550 mHz, XP Pro has no problems with either DVD-A or Vegas 4 during rendering or post. Did you change the priority in task manager by chance to higher than "normal" by chance?

MJ

johnmeyer wrote on 12/9/2003, 11:49 PM

Did you change the priority in task manager by chance to higher than "normal" by chance?

I don't think so. I have XP Pro as well. Odd that this would only show up in DVDA. There is a lot of disk activity when DVDA exits, and this also locks me out for 10-15 seconds. I think I'll check the paging file and that neck of the woods to see if something is corrupted.