whorner98

26th April 2002 15:21 UTC

Some AVS plugin slowed down my system
I have been using Winamp 2.78 for sometime now. I had installed a number of visualizations, some AVS, some not. I have been able to get decent performance out of them. AVS was very quick in the window mode and decent in full screen mode. Everything worked well, I had no complaints.

Then I got greedy and installed 10-20 AVS plugins that looked interesting. Somewhere in that process my system slowed down. Not just Winamp, but all multimedia. It runs slow when I use Media Player, also. Now AVS, even run in a small window, runs slow and audio becomes choppy.

This is key: the system was working well until I installed the AVS plugins and the entire system is slow when doing ANY multimedia, not just Winamp.

I believe something got installed into my system that slowed the audio down and thus little horsepower is left for video. I'm wondering if an audio codec got replaced. I removed all AVS plugins and removed and reinstalled Winamp (now at 2.8), but its still slow.

I looked at the CPU usage and found that it was quite high when running audio and maxed out when AVS was run. Memory usage is reasonable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dell Inspiron P3 1 Ghz, 256 MB
ATI mobility M4, 32 MB
Windows 2000, SP 2

whorner98

26th April 2002 16:55 UTC

Never mind. I think I solved the problem. I was noticing that on about 3-5 second intervals the video would pause. This occurred in media player also. I uninstalled vmware workstation and that problem went away. I hadn't played a video since I installed this program, so I hadn't noticed it an incorrectly assumed it was related. However it did affect AVS also.

Then I changed the AVS settings to pixel doubling and everything sped up to nearly 30 fps. I think one of the presets I loaded changed my original settings.