Vista Dreamscene CPU Usage Issue

[fazaal24]

Windows DreamScene is a utility that allows videos to be used as desktop wallpapers to Vista Ultimate edition users which uses the GPU for display animation instead of the CPU because it relies on the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) which is a part of Windows Aero.

But the real story is different. Check out these screenshots of average CPU usage with DeskScapes (an add-on to DreamScene) installed.

DreamScene with default Vista Aurora video (CPU Usage 44%)

DreamScape Sylock at (CPU Usage 47%)

DreamScape Plasma (CPU Usage 50%)

DreamScene 1080i mpg video (CPU Usage 82%)

Images from here

 

[Anusha]

Yes, this is because Dreamscene is still in sort of beta.

Anyway, I checked my CPU usages and it was around 17% with Deskscape (Blissful Sunset theme).

mpg is the lowest resource consuming video type on my PC. It was about 3-4% which is acceptable

 

[tckrockz]

i depends on da duration of da vdo if itz short den much much low cpu is usd

 

[Anusha]

i depends on da duration of da vdo if itz short den much much low cpu is usd

Actually, it depends on the codec and whether or not your video card (by default) supports decoding of such videos.

mpg uses low resources as a whole
wmv uses more
*.dream : I have no idea which codec they use.

But the RAM usage is dependent on the duration of the video.

 

[fazaal24]

yeah!!

 

[prasadana2]

OMG..
xP IS better 2 me.

 

[Anusha]

OMG..
xP IS better 2 me.

Suit yourself.

After using Vista, I no longer can use XP as efficiently as Vista.

If you remember when XP was launched, things were much worser than Vista. Vista is doing really well.

Remember, Vista will run better than XP on a highend PC. On a slow PC, avoid Vista.

 

[fazaal24]

Suit yourself.

After using Vista, I no longer can use XP as efficiently as Vista.

If you remember when XP was launched, things were much worser than Vista. Vista is doing really well.

Remember, Vista will run better than XP on a highend PC. On a slow PC, avoid Vista.

CHEERZ