Candi Desktop, 90% CPU usage?

[Yahoo (bot)]

Hiya folks.

I've bought a copy of Candi, on the normal setting, I'm seeing 90% CPU usage in CPUTemp.docky, the computer feels slow, well, as if 90% of the CPU is being used showing an animated boing ball.:confused:

The LowCPU version don't animate, and just show the background.

This is on a X1000 HD 5450 graphics card.

Has anyone else got this program working without slowing their system down?

[Rob]

I don't have it but is slow in all modes or just the boingball?

[tommysammy]

Hiya folks.

I've bought a copy of Candi, on the normal setting, I'm seeing 90% CPU usage in CPUTemp.docky, the computer feels slow, well, as if 90% of the CPU is being used showing an animated boing ball.:confused:

The LowCPU version don't animate, and just show the background.

This is on a X1000 HD 5450 graphics card.

Has anyone else got this program working without slowing their system down?

You need Final Edition with the new graphic.library and RadeonHD2.4 driver.
Then the CPU will be at 60% and LowCPU at 30%.I think it will be further optimized

[Yahoo (bot)]

It's all the types of background.

I am a beta-tester (Secret handshake) so I've got all the latestest files. But 60% is still far too high for something like that.

I don't get animation at all with the low version, but at least the CPU usage is v. low!

[eroom]

AmigaOne500 here and i'm using the Candi background 'DefaultAnimated_LowCPU' which gives the clouds moving in the background and the boing ball rotating and i'm getting 25% usage with the RadeonHD 2.4 driver.

RadeonHD 6570 and its as fast as usual.  Doesn't feel like its impacting anything that I run as well.

[Yahoo (bot)]

There's a new update I'll try tonight.

[eroom]

There's a new update I'll try tonight.

The update is better. I'm using the new candles background and getting around 20% usage with oddessy and tunenet running.

[Yahoo (bot)]

Just as broken as ever for me.

80+ CPU on normal, no animations at all on low_CPU.

[Hans_]

Just as broken as ever for me.

80+ CPU on normal, no animations at all on low_CPU.

That's strange behaviour even with a very low end graphics card like a Radeon HD 5450. What else do you have running on your system? If you have no animation at all with the low-CPU versions, then the chances are that you're running something else that's getting in the way.

Candi Desktop runs at a very low priority. That means two things:
- It won't slow down your entire system (your "computer feels slow" impression is probably based on seeing high CPU usage rather than any real sluggishness)
- If other software uses up 100% CPU, then the animation will pause. Once again, this is so that the animation doesn't slow down the rest of the system. However, I wouldn't expect this to happen unless CPU usage is up at 100%

Hans

[F0LLETT]

I have tested on a few X1000's with 5450 and it runs fine. No issues as Hans describes.