[Flexradio] CPU utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

2005-12-18 Thread Tim Ellison
Eric, Here is an observation or two and not a necessarily a commentary on higher CPU utilization with DirectX In DirectX mode, I get a bunch of Unhandled Exception errors when using the GUI (clicking on buttons and such). If I click on the button to continue, CPU utilization goes from 25% to 3%

Re: [Flexradio] CPU utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

2005-12-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 11:16 AM 12/18/2005, Tim Ellison wrote: Eric, Here is an observation or two and not a necessarily a commentary on higher CPU utilization with DirectX In DirectX mode, I get a bunch of Unhandled Exception errors when using the GUI (clicking on buttons and such). If I click on the button to

Re: [Flexradio] CPU utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

2005-12-18 Thread FlexRadio - Eric
Wow. There is no way that I know of that would cause PowerSDR to automatically go from DirectX to GDI+ as you described. More likely, whatever is hanging up the DirectX stuff crashes upon subsequent calls and then it quits doing whatever it was doing before, thus freeing up the cycles. After

Re: [Flexradio] CPU utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

2005-12-18 Thread Tim Ellison
OK. I can believe that once the DirectX stuff crashes, then it quits what it is doing. The display continues to work (for a little while), but it is very unstable. Eventually the exceptions will actually crash the entire application and that is when I get video (something?) corruption that so