Come back to catalyst 3.2

but many games have problem under the driver 3.2 such as Gun Metal and
Unreal 2
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Athlon XP 1800+
ATI 8500 DV
2 IBM 40 GB disks in Raid 0

Since I installed catalyst 3.4 drivers and now catalyst 3.5 the TV
application (MMC 8.5) uses up to 50-70 % of CPU. Of course any recording
genarates a lot a frame drop.
Other applications like DVD (7.6) or Player are quite good 10 to 15 % CPU.

With catalyst 3.2 and any previous versions it was only 3 to 10 % CPU for
TV, and no frame drop with the best resolution and quality.

I revert to 3.2 drivers, keeping MMC 8.5, and CPU drops to less 10 %.
So MMC 8.5 does not seam to be the problem.

As some incompatibilities remain, (some windows refresh are not well done)
I will have also to revert to MMC 7.7.

I am very frustated to not be able to use new catalyst versions and
Easylook.
I dont see any solution to this problem in the news (including rage3D).

Any advice ?

Thanks

Olivier

What OS? Which version of Direct X? Are you doing a clean install? What
setting are you using for recording? How much memory do you have?
Using XP Sp1 and DX9a I get very good recordings using the "DVD quality"
preset and no dropped frames with a slow TBird 1333 and 512mb ram.

"Free" wrote in message
...
Athlon XP 1800+
ATI 8500 DV
2 IBM 40 GB disks in Raid 0

Since I installed catalyst 3.4 drivers and now catalyst 3.5 the TV
application (MMC 8.5) uses up to 50-70 % of CPU. Of course any recording
genarates a lot a frame drop.
Other applications like DVD (7.6) or Player are quite good 10 to 15 % CPU.

With catalyst 3.2 and any previous versions it was only 3 to 10 % CPU for
TV, and no frame drop with the best resolution and quality.

I revert to 3.2 drivers, keeping MMC 8.5, and CPU drops to less 10 %.
So MMC 8.5 does not seam to be the problem.

As some incompatibilities remain, (some windows refresh are not well done)
I will have also to revert to MMC 7.7.

I am very frustated to not be able to use new catalyst versions and
Easylook.
I dont see any solution to this problem in the news (including rage3D).

Any advice ?

Thanks

Olivier

"Free" wrote in message
...
Athlon XP 1800+
ATI 8500 DV
2 IBM 40 GB disks in Raid 0

Since I installed catalyst 3.4 drivers and now catalyst 3.5 the TV
application (MMC 8.5) uses up to 50-70 % of CPU. Of course any recording
genarates a lot a frame drop.
Other applications like DVD (7.6) or Player are quite good 10 to 15 % CPU.

With catalyst 3.2 and any previous versions it was only 3 to 10 % CPU for
TV, and no frame drop with the best resolution and quality.

I revert to 3.2 drivers, keeping MMC 8.5, and CPU drops to less 10 %.
So MMC 8.5 does not seam to be the problem.

As some incompatibilities remain, (some windows refresh are not well done)
I will have also to revert to MMC 7.7.

I am very frustated to not be able to use new catalyst versions and
Easylook.
I dont see any solution to this problem in the news (including rage3D).

Any advice ?

Thanks

Olivier


May have something to do with MMC 8.5, Olivier. I was having problems with
that, using Cat 3.5 (which is the only Cat 3.x that has really worked well
for me) - couldn't get the TV app to work. Then I noticed a post on Rage3D
from an ATi person saying that the basic difference between 8.1 and 8.5 is
EazyLook. So I reverted to 8.1 and all is well (I don't have/want the
remote).

Does EazyLook work with the Cat 3.2 drivers? It occurs to me it may not,
and that's why you get less processor usage. Just a thought.

patrickp

Os : Windows 2000 pack 3, Direct X 9.0A
Athlon XP 1800+
memory 512 MB
ATI 8500 DV
System disk : Quantum SCSI
Video/recording disk : 2 IBM 40 GB disks in Raid 0

Without recording , cpu usage (typical) is as follow :
Atimmc.exe: 46 %
Explorer.exe : 6 %
System : 6 %

recording TV channel with DVD preset MPEG2 720x576 PAL 8MB/sec
Atimmc.exe: 92 %
Explorer.exe 5%
System 3 %
lost frames 4 to 10 %

The problem is TV cpu overhead !

Olivier






!

The problem does not seam related to MMC 8.5 and easylook, because when =
I reverted to 3.2 drivers with the same version of MMC , CPU usage =
returns to low value (less than 5%).
Of course, easy look does not work in this configuration (an information =
message is displayed for this when TV application is started) and I get =
some side effects (I have to click on channel surf first to get channel =
display), but CPU values are correct and recording fine.
I never got CPU overhead problem with previous version of driver.

olivier

"Free" wrote in message
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The problem does not seam related to MMC 8.5 and easylook, because when I
reverted to 3.2 drivers with the same version of MMC , CPU usage returns to
low value (less than 5%).
Of course, easy look does not work in this configuration (an information
message is displayed for this when TV application is started) and I get some
side effects (I have to click on channel surf first to get channel display),
but CPU values are correct and recording fine.
I never got CPU overhead problem with previous version of driver.

olivier

It would seem to me, Olivier, that if EazyLook doesn't work with Cat 3.2
then that would confirm that EazyLook is very possibly related to the CPU
usage you're seeing - what makes you think it isn't? Have you tried MMC
8.1, and do you get the high CPU usage there?

patrickp

Since I installed catalyst 3.4 drivers and now catalyst 3.5 the TV
application (MMC 8.5) uses up to 50-70 % of CPU. Of course any recording
genarates a lot a frame drop.
Other applications like DVD (7.6) or Player are quite good 10 to 15 %

I have the very same problem, I need to use 3.2 drivers
if i want to keep the cpu usage low.

AMD 1.3 GHz
Ati Radeon 8500 DV
SB Live Player 1024
512 MB
Windows Xp Pro