Window Media Player and CPU

jtf-2crusher · #1 05-09-2005, 10:06 PM

Hey guys, im having problems with Windows Media Player. The player is taking up to 95% of the CPU speed. The first 2 sec its cool, but the it sucks the life out of the CPU.
SYS SPEC:
Windows XP Pro
MB:ASUS K8V
CPU: AMD 64 2.8
GC: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Mem: 512mb
HD: 40 GIGs
Connection: DSL 3MBPS

jtf-2crusher · #2 05-10-2005, 05:22 PM

can any one plz help.

asuhot · #3 05-16-2005, 02:21 PM

Do you have visualizations on? If so, turn them off. With the visualizations turned on, the CPU load increases many folds.

jtf-2crusher · #4 05-16-2005, 09:46 PM

Ok, i went through yahoo and google for hours, this happens to be a problem caused by Windows XP SP2, i unstalled it and everything went any, all my videos play right and stuff.

asuhot · #5 05-17-2005, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by jtf-2crusher

Ok, i went through yahoo and google for hours, this happens to be a problem caused by Windows XP SP2, i unstalled it and everything went any, all my videos play right and stuff.

with all the due respect to your efforts, I would like to add that i only have a p4 1.4 Ghz with 256 MB RAM, running winxp pro with sp2, but on my system the cpu load is (i) 15% - 23% when playing audio file with visualizations turned on and (ii) 21% - 29% when playing any video file.

jtf-2crusher · #6 05-17-2005, 02:05 PM

what im going to do know is, im going to intall it again to see if the problem continues or not. Ill let you know. May is my computer who know

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jtf-2crusher · #7 05-18-2005, 12:54 AM

i reinstall SP2 and im having the same probs again. Any Idea what it might be.

asuhot · #8 05-19-2005, 02:19 PM

Just check if your directx accelerations are enabled. These are normally enabled by default but by any chance hadn't they got disabled? The graphic acceleration must also be on full.

jtf-2crusher · #9 05-19-2005, 08:26 PM

all my accelerations or enable. Diagnosted the DirectX and it says thats its woking fine.

Reaper1 · #10 05-20-2005, 10:14 AM

I'm having exactly the same problem. CPU jumps up to 97ish % a few seconds after I open up WMP, I don't even have to play a file or do anything. I think it's some sort of spyware, but I've run adaware/registry mechanic and Norton and they don't find anything. I've had SP2 for a while and it's only in the last week that it has started doing it.
My only other idea is that it is a plugin problem, I had a plugin that called media manager or something like that which I deleated last week, what plugins are people running?

(I just tried to go back to SP1, all good, until I reinstalled WMP10, then exactly the same thing started again... its not SP2, or WMP10 itself, I'm now running WMP 9, and it's still doing it!)

jtf-2crusher · #11 05-23-2005, 09:23 PM

i cant believe nobody knows how to get this fix.